Everyone I ever know who has ever been to Egypt has always warned me that Egyptian food poisoning can be epic. I vividly recall one of my first bosses tell me about how he ate pigeon (an Egyptian delicacy) from Read More
What We Ate
What We Ate: Thessaloniki
We racked up another food tour this past trip, so I think it’s safe to say we are quickly becoming expert consumers of food tours. (I’ve done food tours in Madrid, Tel Aviv, Beirut, Prague, Amsterdam, Rome, and Thessaloniki! They Read More
What We Ate: Genever
And by “What We Ate” I mean: “What We Drank.” I scheduled a distillery tour and tasting at Wynand Fockink for Severin and I. We paid 17.50 euros per person and we were supposed to get 2 genever tastings, 2 Read More
What We Ate: Amsterdam
I’m blogging out of sequence (backwards, actually)– our Karpaz trip happened the first weekend of July, and now I am moving on to Amsterdam, which was the beginning of June. And I still have a few posts from the end Read More
All the Roman Food
Per usual, we found a food tour in Rome and we are sure glad we did. Our tour took place in Trastevere, which felt much more authentic (i.e., no hordes of adoring tourists like at the Spanish Steps). The food Read More
Agros Rose Festival
Poor Cyprus has been conspicuously absent from this blog. It’s not that Cyprus doesn’t have cool stuff to see, it’s just that when we’re home we’re busy living here and so our weekends are full of grocery shopping, laundry, hanging out Read More
Lebanon: What We Ate
As has been well established by science, Mediterranean food is the healthiest cuisine in the world. I would also argue that it is the most delicious. While Mexican food is definitely my favorite, if I had to pick one regional Read More
Israel: What We Ate
For as long as I live, all hummus will be judged against the hummus at Abu Hassan in Tel Aviv. When you hear hummus, you may think of the meal-y, grainy hummus you buy in the refrigerated section of your Read More
Whisky (Not Whiskey)
When in Scotland, you must drink whisky, and you must spell whisky without the “e”! It seems like there are about a million distilleries to choose from. We didn’t want to to overdue it, so we picked the two that Read More