We were in Philadelphia this past weekend for a retreat with Jon’s department. The last time I had been in Philadelphia, other than a quick trip last fall to a spa for a story in DAYSPA magazine, was in 1994, when my sister was graduating from college. That was probably around the same time Jon had [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Chomping Around Town’
October 1, 2009
Chomping Around Town: Ciya Sofrasi (Istanbul)
**My Travel Hats is featuring its own Restaurant Week, in which a not-to-miss restaurant from around the world is showcased each day.** There’s an astronomical clock tower in Prague where statues of the Four Evils hang out: Greed, Death, Vanity and the Turk. I suppose back in the day, the Turks and their Empire weren’t terribly [...]
September 29, 2009
Chomping Around Town: Joe’s Restaurant (Venice, CA)
**This is part of My Travel Hats’ Restaurant Week series of select restaurants from around the world** Go West, young man! We switch over to my former home, where I’ve left my heart. No, not San Francisco, but Santa Monica. Here we visit one of Southern California’s most exquisite restaurants, Joe’s Restaurant, where I spent [...]
September 28, 2009
Chomping Around Town: East Coast Grill (Boston)
***This week, My Travel Hats is having its own Restaurant Week, in which I’ll feature a not-to-miss, must-dine eatery in select cities.*** Across the Charles River of Boston, there lies a nice little community of Cambridge, where some of the smartest scholars in the country come to teach and do research (Harvard and MIT). How do they feed [...]
July 23, 2009
My Travel Hats adds: Chomping Around Town
(above: an amazing food stall at the market in Florence) Surprise! It was about time I started in with one of my favorite activities and highlights of traveling: eating. Soon you’ll start to find entries specific to food highlights, ingredients, and all those deliciousness that will make your mouth water from reading my blog. [...]
June 29, 2009
Getting Lost In: Eastern Shore, Maryland
How to crab: -Find an empty place along the Eastern Shore of Maryland. (We chose Janes Island State Park near Crisfield). -Tie a chicken neck to a piece of twine and toss into water. Hold other end. Wait to feel a tug. Start yelling “Jon! Jon!” because Jon has the long-poled net. Get your visiting [...]
May 26, 2009
Getting Lost In: Southern Florida
I have to admit: after living in southern California, I could never quite extend the same warm fuzzy feeling to Florida. Particularly when it rains practically your entire trip. There I was flying into the coastline with the waves beating into the sand, gray clouds leering over the skies threatening to pour torrential rain on [...]
April 15, 2009
Getting Lost In: [suburban] Chicago!
Ah, Chicago. What I find most interesting about Chicago is not the city itself, but how connected with its suburbs I’ve become. My first taste of Chicago was a t-shirt from my cousin who went to Northwestern, but he spent most of his time outside it, in Evanston. Then I watched all the movies by John Hughes [...]
February 8, 2009
Getting Lost In: Paris, sleeping and shopping like a local (part un)
I spent four months in Paris in the fall of 2007, short enough to still have money (with the euro rising to $1.45) and to still love the city as a live-in tourist, but long enough to fall into the routine of going food shopping, doing laundry (an event in itself – the Parisians do [...]
