My daughter has lots of favorite cookbooks. If she can’t find what she wants to cook or bake, she downloads recipes from TheFoodNetwork.com. Now, she’ll love Tastespotting.com — a new site with a cute “Feed Your Addiction” tagline –– that’s a recipe and food photo aggregator. If you click on a photo, you’ll see its…
Still looking for the perfect V-day gift for yer honey? How about a batch of delectable Homemade Truffles. You’ll learn all the how-tos at this “Cooking With Julie mini-class, right in our own Napa Valley — with plenty of time left over for wine-tasting , so you can pick up a bottle of seductive red…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS IS THE FIRST ARTICLE BY OUR NEWEST VAGABLOND CONTRIBUTOR: DONALD WOO, WHO SPLITS HIS TIME BETWEEN HONG KONG AND THAILAND.] I found this amazing restaurant by accident. It was recommended that I try out ChoteChitr, which is said to be one of the best Thai restaurants in the country. Fortunately, it was…
The ultra-luxe 89-room hotel designed by internationally-renowned, Paris-based decorator Jacques Garcia –– Hotel Victor just opened for business on Ocean Drive –– themed with jellyfish tanks in its restaurant, a large show kitchen with celeb theatrical chef James Wierzelewski, an arabesque-shaped terrace pool, and a sexy basement V Spa. Standing next to Casa Casuarina of…
Here’s a dispatch that hits the delicious mark via Denmark from one of our royal upscale readers, Lady Glyde: “Copenhagen has a rich culinary tradition. It is not a surprise that fish is widely eaten in this quaint city surrounded by natural resources and contemporary cuisine. “The chef at Soekkeroed celebrates natural flavours and preparations…
Like ripples in a pool of water, the many facets of an Asscher cut diamond mystically draw you into a world of reflective lucidity. The “The Royal Asscherâ€? is a 74 facet step-cut octagon that brings sophistication to a new level. In the early 1900’s, Joseph Asscher of Amsterdam was commissioned by King Edward VII…
The pleasure of having heavenly massages has been bestowed upon me several times. Among those are beachfront massages in Thailand and Jamaica as well as spa packages in numerous locations throughout the states. All have been nice, but there is one massage that stays foremost in my mind. Tobacon Hot Springs in Costa Rica. I…
I just received a sample bottle of Boca Loca, “Crazy Lips” Cachaça. Which I have to admit, happily stuck in my wine-rut, I wasn’t so sure what it was. So I read the PR release which said: “Cachaça is Brazilian liquor made from distilled sugar cane juice. So is rum, but rum is made from…
The results are in for the 2007 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. The winners were announced on January 9-12 by 55 professional wine judges from across the US who evaluated more than 3,800 wines entered by 1,572 wineries from 20 states. Complete results will be published in the Chronicle on Friday, February 16 and a…
Oh those Quebecers! The Loews Hotel Vogue in Montreal has just introduced the world’s first Syrup Sommelier. Although New England is generally thought of as the land of all things maple, the Loews Hotel Vogue is helping Canada take back its claim as the maple capital of North America. Maple syrup and all its nuances…
According to the love experts at Sherman’s Travel, they’ve just compiled a list of the ten most romantic places to escape. And what better time than for Valentine’s Day? The list includes the following. I guess I’m not as romantic as I thought… I’ve only been to three of them to date: 1. Buenos Aires…
A three-course pre-fixe meal is $88 at one of SF’s most celebrated celebrity chef restaurants, Michael Mina. The ZAGAT Guide 2007 for San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants rates this celeb chef at 29 (out of a possible 30 for perfection) with the average cost of a meal, one drink and tipat a whopping $105 per…