Archive for the 'travel' Category
Feeding 3 Generations
November 5th, 2008by Caroline
My parents are visiting from Connecticut this week, and for me it’s a good excuse to slow down and spend a bit more time in the kitchen. I won’t spend every free minute writing or editing; instead, I’ll go through the binders full of torn-out magazine and newspaper recipes, page through the dozens of [...]
Berries
September 19th, 2008posted by Caroline
At home, I am a miser with berries. I haven’t quite gotten over the sticker shock when I pick up a basket of organic berries. But I fork over the money, thinking of the farmers who will use the income to pay their employees a decent wage, feed their children, buy health insurance.
Still, [...]
How a Good Family Food Culture Goes Bad. Very, Very Bad
September 15th, 2008posted by Lisa
Of course, it was bound to come to an end.
On the plane ride home, a red-eye, I got sick. It’s generally been a great way for us to travel, but not this year for me. Later, I would be diagnosed with severe migraines, but at the time, I didn’t know this and, by [...]
What We Found at Home
September 9th, 2008posted by Caroline
I didn’t know what to expect when we got home from France. Usually we leave the house empty for a week or so, and a friend often thoughtfully stocks our fridge with milk and bread and eggs, maybe some fresh fruit, for our return. But this time, we were gone much longer and [...]
One Way to Cook a Pig
August 30th, 2008posted by Lisa
There’s no way to soft peddle this one: We like the luaus.
Last year, we attended a really terrific one at the Grand Hyatt Kauai: great food, fun entertainment, and an unparalleled site in the garden at the edge of the beach. The appeal was doubled by the fact we could walk there, so [...]
Scenes from a week of gourmet eating
August 27th, 2008posted by Caroline
Even the local fish ate well:
However, Eli always stuck to the familiar, alternating between two meals: pb&j and cereal with milk:
Unfamiliar Waters
August 25th, 2008posted by Caroline
After a week in Paris, we headed south for a week unlike any we’d ever experienced (or likely will again). To celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, my parents gathered our family on a barge that toured rivers and canals in the south of France. We were the only passengers, cared for by a [...]
Yes, We have no banana blooms…
August 19th, 2008posted by Lisa
…a story in pictures about desire lost and found.
Week 2 at the Koloa Sunshine Market, we came for the regular things: greens, radishes, mountain spinach, tomatoes, fiddlehead ferns, mountain apples, and a back breaking assortment of mangoes, papayas, pineapples, passion fruit, apple bananas. Everything was rough and beautiful as always, and Ella and [...]
What (not) to do in restaurants
August 10th, 2008posted by Lisa
We love Plantation Gardens, where we stayed last year for a week. The condo was extremely pleasant, but the real revelation were the grounds and the restaurant, which is one of the best places we’ve found to eat out on the south shore of Kauai.
The Moir gardens, which border the restaurant are [...]
Why We Love France
August 5th, 2008posted by Caroline
Sure, we love the museums, the sense of history, the people (yes, I really do). The boys love the trains. But we also just really love all the chocolate. It’s available at every meal, whether melted into milk for chocolat chaud, baked into pastry for pain au chocolat, or tossed by the handful [...]