And more food. Yesterday was a walking food tour of Beirut. We ate ourselves silly and learned a ton about Beirut and Lebanon from Iffat, our truly amazing, warm and wonderful guide from Taste Lebanon. She spent the day with us, from 10:30 am to 8:30 pm (when we even got a peek at the…
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Dinner by the sea ~~ Babel Bay ~~ December 10, 2017
I’ve eaten a lot of meals sitting by, or even floating on, the Mediterranean. Wonderful meals, kissed by salty sea breezes in France, in Spain, in Greece, in Croatia, in Turkey, in Italy, in Israel. Today I added a country I was never quite sure I would get to. Lebanon. In Beirut’s Babel Bay we…
I’m here! ~~ December 9, 2017
All my life, Lebanon has just been an idea, a place out of reach, birthplace of my grandfather, and source of the truly amazing food, at once exotic and familiar, that my grandmother cooked. I’ve tried to get here several times, but war shut the country down. You can see the scars on the buildings….
Ship’s Galley Tour: Someone’s in the kitchen with Chef Kurt ~~ July 5, 2017
It may be a cruise staple but the galley tour is one of my favorite things about cruising (right up there along with shopping with the chef.) We stayed on board yesterday. We weren’t feeling too excited about Crotone, I wanted to make a start on a book proposal and J had a review to…
Things Worth Waiting For ~~ June 23, 2017
Arrived yesterday in Venice. Getting ready for a new kind of adventure. I haven’t posted in a while because frankly, I’ve been sick, anxious, and painful. This trip to celebrate our 30th anniversary was supposed to start a week and a half ago with three nights in our favorite hotel in Paris, a flight to…
and away she goes.... 