Wine and Food Travel

In the Shandong Province of Northern China you’ll find street vendors with shao bing breads piled high. Women buy their daily supply to bring home to feed their families. In this wheat dependent area, rice is not the common carb, this bread is. And it’s these flaky and chewy flatbreads that define the comfort foods at home. Filled with long-stewed meats, pickled radishes and cucumbers, fresh herbs...

Sandwich board to welcome us in I had the good fortune last week to receive an invitation to the Kinfolk Social, a celebration of community, food, and craft, at The Green Building in Brooklyn. I went solo, hoping that like-minded nice people interested in meeting others would allow me entry to their conversations. They did. The Green Building, an event space with a long, lofted barn feel was lit by...

It’s funny that sometimes what becomes routine and normal is often stripped of its true magic. I have been visiting New York City since I was a child, but more frequently lately, since my sister Jenna and her husband, Mitch, have relocated to the Chelsea neighborhood. I never take New York for granted; you cannot ignore the beauty and brilliance of this place, but the last few trips have been a bit...

All’s well at M. Wells, but only for another few weeks. M. Wells, the Long Island City diner headed by Montreal’s Au Pied de Cochon alum Hugue Dufour and partner Sarah Obraitis, is closing at the end of the month after only being in business for a year! My friend Christa and I braved torrential rains with a sense of urgency to get there before the final meal is served. Housed in an old-fashioned...

By some glitch of the iPhone Facebook application, my friend Kendra “checked me in” to a yet-to-be-opened restaurant in the West Village of New York City for whom she is doing the PR. Well, Kendra, if you insist! I had literally just stepped off the bus, arriving on a Monday night around nine. I commented on her check-in, letting her know that in fact, I was in town, shall I come down to do some...