Category: Travel
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On the Road: The Ultimate Sweet Lovers Guide to New York City
Originally published in Taste & Travel Issue 17, Spring 2015. Oven doors open to let waft the scent of freshly baked cookies filled with crushed pretzels, butterscotch, and potato chips; seasoned hands deftly squeeze piping bags filled with rosewater-scented cream onto tray after tray of fresh croissant-doughnut pastry hybrids; ice cream vats are filled with local milk,…
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On the Road: A Swedish Midsummer.
After a weekend in Stockholm, my friend Stina and I jumped in the car to drive out to the countryside. We were headed for Örebro, Stina’s university town, and the countryside surrounding it. We were to spend Midsommar by Lake Hjälmaren, Sweden’s fourth-largest lake. On our way, we stopped in at Sigtuna, Sweden’s first town…
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On the Road: A Winery From the Middle Ages and Sustainable Living in Freiburg, Germany.
Home of the famous Freiburg Minster, a beautiful cathedral built in the 1200s, and the only Gothic cathedral completed in the Middle Ages to survive the bombing in the 1940s. A number of houses around the cathedral were wiped out in the raids in 1944, but the clever church staff had removed all of the…
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On the Road: Pork and sage three ways in Lincolnshire, England.
London was getting to me. I was writing my book, How to Make Coffee, while living out of Airbnbs and from the tables and counters of various cafes and bars. London was so.. distracting, and expensive. I’d looked around for a little studio I could rent in the countryside – it didn’t matter where – and…