September 28, 2010
The Hocca Bar first opened its doors in 1952, and serves up thousands of sandwiches, beers, and pastéis de bacalhau (pastries packed with cod) everyday. The mixed crowd of kids, families, polo wearers, old gentlemen, and nuns stand or sit on stools, consuming their sandwiches. Everyone loud, talking,
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August 25, 2010
I’m feeling a bit deflated today. Recently I discovered that my column shares the same name with a right-wing, conspiracy theory, political blog (I’ll leave out the hyper link here, because you don’t need to waste your time with all that. Ok never mind, freedom of speech yaddi yadda, here you go).
So just
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July 16, 2010
Mortadella, prociutto cotto, and prociutto crudo slices… in a CONE.
This is how we’ll be eating meat in the future. How about steak (medium rare please!) in a cone? Hot dog in a cone? Slab bacon in a cone?
Hmmm… I think I’m onto something. This reminds me of…
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May 18, 2010
Yes please! I never realised that you could get chorizo that wasn’t sliced like salami … yes, very uncultured here. That is, until I popped down to the London gourmands’ perennial favourite, Borough Market, just south of the Thames and very close
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November 27, 2009
Charcuterie platter.By Chef Jeff Crump, The Ancaster Old MillAncaster, Ontario, Canada
*Erin Gleeson is based in NYC. She enjoys shooting cookbooks and teaches photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
October 18, 2009
I’ve been co-habitating with the BF for eight months now and take it from the girl who loved having her own apartment: living in sin rules! Despite the few things we don’t always agree
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September 9, 2009
At a lovely lodge in the canton of Geneva, I got to eat horse! The building is surrounded by vineyards and is used mostly for wine tastings.
The Swiss do a lot of dried/cured meats and horse is a pretty common one. If you go to grocery stores, there are signs indicating beef
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August 16, 2008
Totally classic Sunday market at the border of France and Switzerland. There is a butcher, a fishmonger, a couple cheesemakers and bakers. Everyone walking around with baskets and baguettes.
Really delicious fruits, especially the best cantalope type melons that you can peel with a knife, their skins are so thin!
The boucherie
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July 24, 2008
I’m noticing way too much asian-ness on this blog right now, so I’m gonna mix it up a little bit. Gotta keep it culturally diverse. (Insert sarcastic face here).
Fumiko just got back from a jaunt in Barcelona- she has a nice Mediterranean glow and is speaking in funky JaSpanGlish with a weird Catalan accent. Oy.
She brought me back, what else,
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October 30, 2007
Stopped off in Madrid for one night to see my dear friends Marta and Jose. Marta and I lived together in Padova, and she’s like a sister to me.
But first, let’s talk airplane food. I took Iberia both back and forth from NY, and here are just some few points of why non-US airlines are better than American ones:-
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