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Finca Buen Vino, Andalucia, Spain
Finca Buen Vino is a charmingly sprawling bed and breakfast (and lunch and dinner) retreat decorated in hand-picked local tile, warm wood paneling and a cluster of furnishings that instantly make you feel at home. There are arched doorways and mullioned windows that let […]
Aherne’s Seafood Restaurant
It was a grueling journey down some of the narrowest two-way roads we had experienced on our trip to Ireland. With Ernie behind the wheel of a boat of a rental car and handwritten instructions from the charming, but vague, Irish woman at the restaurant, we managed to arrive […]
Lemony Roast Lamb with Roasted Vegetables
Free from: Gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, yeast
Last week at the Marylebone Farmer’s Market, I bought a leg of lamb from the Old Hall Farm, Purveyors of Free Range Home Grown Traditional Rare Breeds and Game out of Kent. That’s a mouthful but you run into that a lot here; small farmers sustainably […]
Marylebone Market Sunday Lunch
Free from: Gluten, eggs, dairy, soy, yeast
My American friends think we are tonier than we are. As we live in London they think we spend our weekends at museums and the theater. Not exactly. What really makes a weekend satisfying is going to food markets.
Venturing to a part of the […]
Dublin Part Two
Dublin has changed dramatically since my trip back in ’82. As in London, there are so many more creative, healthy and ethnic options for eating than there were then. With champions like Darina Allen of Ballymaloe House and Cookery School there’s a focus on buying […]
Dublin Part One
I hadn’t been in Dublin since 1982 when my boss called me to her office and blurted out she was terrified of flying and could I please go to Ireland the next day, Thanksgiving, in her place. I called my husband and said “Save me some leftovers.”
Thanksgiving dinner, 1982 — boiled […]
Crash and Burn or How Not to Eat When You Fly
Oh God why don’t I follow my own advice? I’m bloated, drowzy, crampy and really uncomfortable sitting at Gate 47 at the Denver Airport. The problem: I ate the airplane food on my last flight. I got bumped to first class and somehow thought the food would be better, different, safe. Apparently […]
