Category: Food Porn
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Day 155 – Seville, Spain – Andalusian cuisine: Eating tapas in Seville
Andalusian cuisine Andalusian cuisine reflects the deep history and turmoil of the region. You can trace the region’s traditional dishes to contributions made by different cultures throughout time. The region was first settled by the Phoenicians around 1100BC who first planted olives and grapevines. 300 years later the region would become the main source…
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La Tasqueria de Javi Estevez – March 2, 2020 (Madrid, Spain)
Javi Estevez started his restaurant in 2015 and at 35 received his first Michelin star in 2019. What makes his restaurant exceptional is that he did it championing the nose to tail approach he feels represents traditional Spanish cooking and really highlights offal cooking as the star of the menu. These types of dishes…
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NOMA – February 4, 2020 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
NOMA was awarded the Best Restaurant in the World 2010-2012 and 2014 (currently #2 in 2019), two Michelin stars, and its chef and creator Rene Redzepi almost single handedly has changed the face of Nordic cuisine and started the local foraged ingredient trend in restaurants across the world. He relentlessly innovates and invests both…
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Day 119 – Cologne (Köln), Germany – Exploring traditional Kölsch cuisine in the brauhäuser (brewhouses) of Köln.
I’ve been trying to get to Cologne for many years and I wasn’t going to miss my chance to experience all of the yummy goodness the city has to offer. Kölsch is my favorite beer. After spending my younger years enthralled by heavier stronger beers, this is what makes me happy now. Light, easy…
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Day 107 – Amsterdam, the Netherlands – You sexy minx.
Amsterdam is a lot like Burning Man if everyone decided to put their clothes on. Everyone rides around on bikes or funny little “cars”, the smell of weed and booze is in the air, and there’s a general collective bent towards revelry and good will. And it’s expensive and mostly white. But you can’t…
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Day 91 – Next level street food and the truly amazing cuisine of Istanbul, Turkey. (part 4 of 4)
Istanbul is the center of worlds, the relentless meeting of east and west, and the cuisine is no less complex. Influences from all over the world combine to create something truly new and exciting to me. Outside of poor imitations this is my first experience with Turkish food and I can’t wait to try…
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Monte – October 25, 2019 (Rovinj, Croatia)
Opened in 2008 by chef Danijel Dekić, the restaurant Monte has managed to slip under the international radar until it received Croatia’s only Michelin star in 2017. Nestled in the upper Istria region, the restaurant has access to world class seafood, wine, and ingredients.
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Day 16 – Split, Croatia
My highschool social studies project predicted the Yugoslavian civil war (known here as the Homeland War – Domovinski rat). And my college roommate was an ethnic Albanian from what is now Kosovo. He left home in the early 90’s at 16 when the war started and we lived together in 95 near the end when…
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Day 13 – Barcelona, Spain
I’ve been here before. The tiny bars lining the pedestrian allies of the gothic quarter off La Rambla were a revelation. The food, the people, enchanting. And did I mention the food? Seven years ago Katy and I were discussing travel. I had never really traveled outside of the country and like most Americans…
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Altura – February 12, 2019
It’s a tough call but I think Altura is my favorite restaurant in Seattle. This was my fourth time back and every meal has been exceptional. Chef Nathan Lockwood opened this cozy spot at the end of Broadway on Capitol Hill in 2011. You’ll see Nathan nominated for Best Chef, Best Fine Dining Restaurant,…