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Dock Kitchen, London
Just north of Notting Hill on the Grand Union Canal in Ladbroke Grove, West London sits the experimental restaurant Dock Kitchen. The converted Victorian Wharf building retains original red brick walls and arches that complement the restaurant interior designed by furniture designer Tom Dixon […]
Primavera Breakfast at San Francisco Ferry Building Farmers Market
Jet-lagged and hungry for food I can’t get in London, we headed to the San Francisco Ferry building to meet Bonni for breakfast at the Farmer’s Market. It was glorious. A brilliantly blue sky flecked with white. The air was brisk but when the wind fell off […]
Why I Love Tapas Brindisa and their Shop at Borough Market
The first time we went to Brindisa we were on a food high as it was also our first foray to “London’s Larder”— the Borough Market. Situated on the south bank of the Thames, under graceful Victorian railway viaducts, this vibrant food haven offers locals […]
Mercada de Triana, Seville
I’m sitting here trying to remember all the details of day four the Natural Light-Natural Food photography workshop. It’s taken far longer than I ever anticipated organizing images, picking ones I thought might be interesting and trying to put together a cohesive story. In the end I think I’ll deal […]
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 […]
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 […]
