Tag: food
Quinoa Pancakes – Direct From Peru!
Quinoa wasn’t even on my list of must-have adventures for our recent trip to Peru. Machu Picchu? Yep. Riding Paso horses? You bet! Shopping for colorful woven handicrafts? Of course. But dining on quinoa, taking pictures of quinoa, collecting quinoa recipes? Not so much. The first encounter To be quite honest, I had tried quinoa […]
Pavlova – Best Down Under Dessert
Pavlova may not be a household “name” in the Northern Hemisphere, but it’s perennially popular in Australia and New Zealand. The iconic gooey meringue, topped with colorful fruit, is often served at birthday parties, holiday meals, and other special occasions. Because pavlova is considered the national dessert of both Australia and New Zealand, authentic travelers […]
Local Photographer’s Santa Barbara Food Tour
This Santa Barbara food tour trip report is brought to you by Jessica Roy who – as you’ll read below – had a great time sampling local culinary specialties as a guest of Eat This, Shoot That! Her guide and ETST owner Tara Jones is an expert foodie and a crash hot photographer. Tara attended Brooks Institute of Photography in […]
Tuscany Cooking School Trip Report
Remember the Tuscany cooking school contest? Last year Authentic Luxury Travel offered subscribers a chance to win a week at Il Campo Cucina, a unique cooking school in tiny Radicondoli. Andrea Cafarelle was the lucky winner. Did she have a good time at the Tuscany cooking school? Read her trip report: In June last year, […]
News about the Delicious La Jolla Foodie Getaway
I think apologies are in order. Last week I launched the “Delicious La Jolla Foodie Getaway” on www.LaJollaTravelInformation.com and invited Authentic Luxury Travel subscribers to enter the contest. However, my mind must not have been fully engaged when I asked that this question be answered in the comment form at the end of the La Jolla […]
Tuscany – Look Who’s Cooking at Il Campo Cucina
The Tuscan Cooking School Getaway contest on this site drew 450 entries last summer - and Andrea Cafarelle was the lucky winner. She’s at Il Campo Cucina in Tuscany right now and Marlane Miriello just sent me this great photo of Andrea stirring the sauce. I bet the folks back home in Boston wish they could trade places. Congratulations […]
Floribbean Cuisine Near Disney World
Anand Srinivasan contributed this guest post. I didn’t know something called “Floribbean cuisine” existed until I visited Disney World a year back. I was on a six month business trip to the United States and prior to this trip, the only “American food” I had ever tasted was at the KFCs and McDonalds back home […]
Inflight Comfort – Air Travel Tips
Inflight comfort When I’m flying, I pick my seat with all the consideration I’d give to buying a new house, and I suggest you do the same. It will be your home while you’re on board and can make or break your level of inflight comfort. Look at the seating chart on the airline’s […]
Vietnam Travel Companies
Everywhere we went in Vietnam, we were greeted with smiles Of all the trips I’ve taken, the one to Vietnam stands out as being the biggest surprise. I expected to meet people who didn’t like Americans – and was greeted by smiling faces. I knew very little about the history, other than the period of […]
