For us, the best part of traveling is checking out local restaurants. On a recent work trip to Portland, OR, which Luke tagged along on for fun, we found some great restaurants and ate some really good food! Let’s start with breakfast. Obviously, there is Voodoo Doughnuts. Of the 20 or so different crazy flavors, we [...]

“Ga-wow, this is the most amazing dinner ever!” – Luke, pretending to be Jose Andres I was in LA for work this weekend and I got to check out Jose Andres’s newest restaurant, The Bazaar, which is in a brand new hotel called SLS. It was truly an amazing and entertaining experience. I wasn’t the only [...]

In Washington, DC there are a bunch of places to find products from Big Tree Farms. There is only one place in Bali, however, where you can get their products. A little challenge makes everything more fun though! I had a free afternoon so I got a car and headed 45 minutes north to the [...]

When we travel we always try to find interesting food items. Our Vermont cheese tour is an extreme example of that and my recent trip to Bali was no exception. My best “find” was Big Tree Farms–and the funny thing is that I had already discovered their products at my local Whole Foods. Big Tree Farms [...]

Sometimes you have to make the best of a bad situation…and a 9 hour layover is a bad situation. I was in Indonesia for work and on the way back I had a layover in Japan. After an overnight flight into Narita, Japan, I got off the plane and saw that it was drizzling outside…perfect [...]

We just got back from a week in San Francisco and Napa Valley and ate such amazing food and drank delicious wine that our trip deserves a recap! First stop in San Francisco was Zuni Cafe for appetizers of sliced heirloom tomatoes and marinated olives. We continued our walk to Nopa for a dinner of little [...]

J.K. Adams 1430 Route 30, Dorset, VT Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour After reading all of the recent posts it may seem like all that Vermont has is cheese. This is completely untrue. They actually have two things–the other is maple syrup. To make lots of maple syrup you need lots of maple trees, [...]

Grafton Village Cheese Shop 33 Townshend Road Grafton, VT 05146 800-472-3866 Daniel’s House Café 92 Main St Grafton, VT 05146 800-843-1801 Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour Our visit a couple of years ago to Grafton Village Cheese Company is what really planted the seed in our minds for our ‘08 Cheese Tour. Grafton Cheddar defines what good cheddar should [...]

Long Trail Brewery Junction of Route 100a and 4 Bridgewater Corners, VT 05035 Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour You know there is something special about a place when the employees stick around after hours. It does help if that place is a brewery…but it is still a good sign. We stopped by Long Trail [...]

Frog City Cheese 106 Messer Hill Road Plymouth Notch, VT 05056 802-672-3650 Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour The are too many good cheese places to visit in Vermont. We tried to make it to as many as possible and unfortunately some of the ones we made it to closed before we got there. OK, so [...]

Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour There are so many cute inns in Vermont, it was hard to choose! After the drive through Massachusetts and New Hampshire, we stopped at the Norwich Inn in Norwich for lunch. We were lured by the fact that they have their own brewery. We ate outside [...]

King Arthur Flour Store 135 Route 5 South Norwich, Vermont 05055 phone: 802.649.3361 Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour Once you get into baking you come across King Arthur Flour and give it a try. Depending on where you buy it, it is only a little bit more expensive than regular flour and always delivers great [...]

Bufala di Vermont 2749 Church Hill Road S. Woodstock, VT 05071 802-457-4540 Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour Mozzarella is a soft cheese that is best fresh. I got water buffalo mozzarella before from Vace that was flown in from Italy. It was very tasty and creamy but it lacked the “freshness” of really fresh mozzarella. [...]

Crowley Cheese 14 Crowley Lane Healdville, VT 05758 Phone: (802)259-2340 Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour I met one of the most amazing cheese makers on our tour…and I totally forgot to ask his name. This is what separates us bloggers from real reporters. Every now and then we miss some details. Luckily he was wearing [...]

Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour Helmut’s Strudel Shop in Rockport, MA has amazing coffee cake muffins, among other things, including coffee and cheese strudel. Every time we go to Rockport we make a trip to Bearskin Neck for some “penny” candy, salt water taffy and coffee cake muffins. Sometime we even [...]

Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour I like old people candy. There, I’ve said it. Don’t give me any sour flavored, blue colored, gummy candy treats. Instead give me black licorice or better yet some NECCO wafers. What better to do, when in Boston, than go to the New England Confectionary Company – [...]

Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour There are two kinds of fried clams in this world–fried clam strips and fried clams with bellies. The first kind is a flavorless dried out, stringy, piece of clam meat. The second kind is moist, tender and full of ocean flavor. For the past couple of [...]

We brought back eight bottles of wine from Argentina, which is four more than you are allowed duty free. All you have to do is declare it, and they may (but most likely not) ask you to pay a tax. The tax is only 3 percent, I think, and on $15 bottles, it doesn’t add [...]

The great things about dining in Argentina are: The food is amazing The exchange rate with the dollar makes it possible to be a little extravagant. We definitely took advantage of both! Here is a diary of our favorite meals. You’ll notice that most meals were our favorite! And of course, you can’t have meals with out some amazing [...]