The summer after I graduated from college I worked in northern France for 2 months in a town located near the city of Compiègne. While there, I visited the archaeological site of Pincevent where remains of a Magdalenian campsite used around 10,000-9000 BC was discovered. The remains of stone tools, reindeer bones, hearths and circular…
Llapingachos, yum!
When I was traveling in Ecuador, I ate these delicious potato patties called llapingachos. They were filled with cheese and served with avocado and tomato slices. I had a craving for them recently and decided to try and make them at home. I roughly followed the recipe I found on the website Laylita’s Recipes, a…
Breakfast, the most delicious meal of the day
I love breakfast. So when I saw the cover of the September issue of Los Angeles magazine, I could not resist buying it. The picture on the cover alone was enough to get me buy it, but the headline of the top 51 places for breakfast (and 4 boozy brunch favorites) sealed the deal. I…
Gaga for Guava
This summer when I was working in Ecuador, I came to the realization that I absolutely love guava. I just could not get enough of the guava juice and guava jam I had there. Growing up, we used to eat a lot of Cuban guava pastries, or pastelitos de guayaba. My favorite is with cream…
Some jugo, por favor!
One of the things I’ve loved about eating in South America the couple of times I’ve been down there (well one of many things) is all the delicious fruit that’s available and the fruit juices that you can get at every meal. Not only do they have all kinds of fruits not available here but…
Eating in Ecuador-Locro de Papa
This summer I’m working in Ecuador for about a month, so the next few posts will be about foods that I’m eating here. The first thing I wanted to post about is this delicious soup I first tasted when I was in Ecuador 2 years ago. I was in the Galapagos Islands and stopped at…
Microwave s’mores & the birth of S’more Francis Bacon
Each Monday I read the blog for the NPR show “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” where they have a post called “Sandwich Monday”. The WWDTM team tries a sandwich (usually something very weird or crazy) and reviews it (which if you ask me is an awesome job). On one Sandwich Monday, they reviewed a microwave s’mores…
I don’t want your shi-shi tapas
For those of you who aren’t familiar with tapas, these are snacks or appetizers eaten in Spain. It’s kind of like meze in the Mediterranean or the Middle East. When I’ve been in Spain and had tapas, it’s usually been in a bar while having drinks. You can either order specific ones or I’ve been…
Umami Burger – Sorry, I just don’t get it
Last year I was watching “The Next Iron Chef” on the Food Network and the chefs were asked to create dishes highlighting the tastes salty, sweet, bitter, sour and a new one called “umami”. The show translated this word as “delicious” which I thought was a weird taste category. Reading on Wikipedia about umami, the…
There’s a party in my mouth
As a kid, I loved eating Pop Rocks. I loved to pour most of the bag in my mouth then just let them sit in there as my saliva activated the “popping” and then would just open my mouth so the sound of the candy popping would be amplified. Of course I was never brave…
Fatty Bloom 