I remember when Northstar-at-Tahoe would only let so many people ski the hill on a given day. If you got there late and they had their quota, buh-bye! Now they’re launching a building boom with a huge planned $300 million project to put a Ritz-Carlton Hotel half-way up the mountain. Construction will begin this summer…
Lahaina, Maui, is a 19th century whaling village that has morphed into a touristy town filled with oceanfront restaurants and T-shirt shops. It wasn’t that way in the late 60s when I first visited this plush, lush island. But 10 miles north is a AAA Five Diamond-rated resort: The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua.
It’s that time again. Let’s all make a wish and blow out the candles as we celebrate our 700th posting since last April. As you may have noticed, Vagablond now includes the best of travel, food and wine. So some of the best of our last 50 stories include: About Food: • Best Croissant, Worst…
If scuba diving, whale watching and surfing lessons have left you not only broke but starving — fear not. You can still eat great fresh seafood without having to pawn your new surfboard. The solution lies at Maui’s Eskimo Candy. This Seafood Market and Café boasts not only a wide selection of freshly caught fish…
Just when you thought you could be a food show host……..
hola, amigos! here is my favorite yeast bread recipe. enjoy! laurennnnnnnnnn “…You better come on in my kitchen, it’s goin’ to be rainin’ outdoors…â€? –Robert Johnson, from “Come On In My Kitchenâ€? One late summer afternoon when I was five, our Mother called my sister Rae and I in; out of an all-too-infrequent cooling afternoon…
Another little travel story with a recipe for a feta and tomato salad. The best croissant I’ve ever had was not in France. Although I did have an excellent one in Nice one Sunday morning…a small cafe’, a cup of coffee, surrounded by French people drinking coffee, eating croissants, reading the Sunday paper and talking…
I remember the first television on our block. I was four and my sister, Rae, was seven-almost-eight. It was a bright July early afternoon and we were playing with the neighbor kids in the empty lot, actually a pasture, across the street from our house. Across the street was the edge of town. Our house…
COCO BREAD hola, amigos! I used to go to Jamaica part of the time in the winter, coco bread was one of my favorite treats. This is a version of my favorite Jamaican bread… peace, laurennnnnnnnnnn 1 14-ounce can coconut milk 2 ¼ teaspoons active dry yeast (¼-ounce) 2 eggs 2 Tablespoons sugar 2 cups…
My father was not a patient man, which is fairly remarkable considering the nature of his work; he was a farmer and a carpenter. He was particularly not patient with people and did not suffer fools or children (including my sister Rae and me) gladly. There were a few things he learned to be patient…
Shortly after moving to Bismarck in the summer of 1992, I got a job working at the Green Earth Café (now closed). Working in restaurants and cafés requires a certain amount of multitasking. Some of my responsibilities as a new employee included making basic sauces and dressings and prepping vegetables for soups and entrées.