On Saturday, I joined my friends for the Belmar Seafood Festival. I haven’t been to the Jersey Shore in a long time (a few years ago I drove to Cape May during the off-season), and this was my first trip south on NJ Transit. It was two hours on the commuter train, but it was […]
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Sunday was the Jersey City Chili Cook-Off at Grove St. PATH. I tried a lot of chili from a variety of cooks and restaurants.
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Just about every travel blogger has a post about saving money for travel or saving money while traveling. Most have some great suggestions, like cutting cable and selling off the car, but most of these posts are redundant now. Therefore, I’m going to begin providing readers with some smaller money-saving tips (Note: I don’t have
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A Friday night dinner of Austro-Hungarian food and beer at the Hoboken Pilsner Haus.
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A taste of the other culinary traditions of Iceland, including a hot dog from Bæjarins beztu pylsur and pizza that that impressed an east coaster.
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Sampling Icelandic geothermal baked rye bread with smoked trout at Fontana Spa in Laugarvatn during a tour of the Golden Circle.
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A sampling of the great restaurants Iceland has to offer, filled with plenty of fish and even smoked puffin breast.
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The Chinese New Year is upon us! It’s the year of the snake, which probably means that a lot of people in China will eat some sort of snake dish to celebrate (couldn’t do that last year with the year of the dragon). During my first summer in China, my parents came to visit for
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My unhealthy fascination with unusual international snacks sometimes leads me to buy food based on Chinglish snack packages.
When I go on vacation I seek two things: culture and food. I had plenty of culture in Malaysia, and I had to balance it out with the local flavors. And being there with my family meant that I could enjoy even more food. There were some days that I managed to stuff myself stupid–the
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Some people have dietary restrictions, but in some countries, certain fruits are banned. In Malaysia, durian is forbidden in enclosed areas.
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A taste of Halifax, Canada, with stops at Economy Shoe Shop, Maxwell’s Plum, and Boneheads BBQ for crab cakes, a pulled pork sandwich, and mussels.
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My Airbnb hosts in Halifax took me to the farmer’s market — showing me the way to some wonderful coffee and a beautiful rooftop view.
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Some important notes and experiences on grocery shopping and going to supermarkets in China.
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Yesterday was the Jersey City Chili Cook-off on 4th Street. There was chili, music, and artsy vendors. All I could think about was Homer at the Springfield chili cook-off with the spoon he carved from a bigger spoon (and there were no hallucinatory peppers grown my inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum). Unfortunately, I didn’t
