How do you describe an experience you'll remember the rest of your life? With great difficulty. My ten day trip to North Carolina was so dense with experience that I have to break it up into manageable parts. First up is at look at the John C. Campbell Folk School where ...read more
Spend time with Jesse Griffiths at his live fire restaurant Dai Due in Austin and you want to stay there and help hunt, butcher, forage, pickle and bake. His is a seamless culinary aesthetic that honors honest ingredients, cooks, the live fire of chuck wagon cookery, and the German, Mexican and Cajun roots ...read more
While we struggle community by community to figure out how feed our school children an enjoyable healthy school lunch we might look to Japan for some ideas. I understand that the scale is completely different, after all the total number of students at every elementary school in the country might be ...read more
Most of my travel is food focused. I’m headed somewhere to meet people who make interesting food tied to a place and to taste that food. Over the past decade I find that the line between vacation, educational junket and personal exploration has blurred. If I travel with food friends ...read more
Everywhere I travel I try to find a Pie tied to the local culture. In Iceland the closest I could get to pie is Hjonabandsaela, Blissful (or Happy) Marriage Cake. The lore regarding the origin of the name has been lost. But in a way that’s great because we get to ...read more