Food and memories are inextricably linked, and these memories have emotions in the mix as well. This will come as no surprise to anyone who has smelled baking cookies or tasted the first bite of stuffing at Thanksgiving dinner. Food nostalgia is the term used by scientists to refer to how thinking of or eating …
They eat donkeys in Italy. While we were in Mantua, we were told it was a local specialty in the restaurant where my husband ordered kangaroo for lunch. Donkey stew was there on the menu with the kangaroo steak, and I confess I had never seen either on any menu, not even in New Zealand which …
In Hong Kong, it’s all about making deals and eating food. So on our trip there, we decided to make a deal for blue and white antique ginger jars and eat our way through Hong Kong Island and Aberdeen. We found a shop we liked on Hollywood Street in the historic Sheung Wan area, and …
On a warm, cloudy day in May my husband and I were exploring in an absolutely out of the way, non-touristy Dutch village in Friesland in the north of the Netherlands. Our trajectory from the canal where we left our boat was clearly towards the slowly arcing arms of a large windmill in the distance. …
