I have been to the great state of Nebraska many times, as that is where my husband hails from, but I have not really had a good opportunity to write about Omaha food until recently, when I drove across the country to my new home in San Francisco. Read the rest of this entry »
Cari and I played hooky during BlogHer Food ’09 for a bit and stumbled upon a Japanese sweet shop…
Not many photos from day three, as I was busy conferencing, networking, eating Pixy Sticks and slowly but surely, getting the worse flu of my life. BlogHerFood was a giant conference held in San Francisco for food bloggers from around the country. The conference had three different tracks of interest to pick classes from, a visual track focusing on food photography, a vocation track focusing on food blogging as a career, and a values track focusing on the ethics and politics of food. You could hop back and forth between tracks, which is pretty much what I did. Read the rest of this entry »
*********************************************************** This is the second part of my second day in San Francisco. To read about day one, go here. To read part one of my second day, go here. *********************************************************** For dinner, we hit up Fish & Farm, a relatively new restaurant in the city (opened June 2009 near the Civic Center/ Tenderloin, according to Yelp) that focuses on sourcing local, sustainable seafood and artisan meats in a upscale yet casual atmosphere. FYI, this restaurant was named to have the best burger in the entire city. Reason enough to dine here. Read the rest of this entry »
Back in September, I had the joy of visiting San Francisco for the second time in my life. A good friend from grad school lives in the area, so she picked out a cute little spot to meet up and eat some food, Chouchou French Bistro in the Forest Hill neighborhood of the city. Just a slip of a restaurant, Chouchou was set up with romantic mood lighting and a live music duet in the corner of the restaurant. It was a slightly chilly evening in SF, and a fog was rolling over the hill the little bistro sat atop of. If you are anything like me, you know this is the perfect get chunky weather, so I had to go for my favorite starter of all time, a mother-freaking delicious bowl of French onion soup, covered in gooey, melty and slightly crisp Swiss cheese. Ain’t no messing around here, cuz when that winter chunk hits, you just gotta ride it each cheese-filled bite at a time. That’s just how I roll, you know. Read the rest of this entry »
***Let me just start out by saying, I had not planned to write this much, especially while working on my dissertion. I just can’t shut up. It’s a disease, people.*** My friend Matt was the first person to actually visit my partner and I in Australia, so we were heaps excited to show him a good time. Matt is a former chef and current food lover, so of course, I had to show him that South Australia could roll with the big boys. Lets be honest. Matt is from Nebraska. The ?big boys? are a TGIFridays and the Buffalo Wild Wings outside of the Super Walmart. But still, I dig the guy culinarily speaking, so I wanted to show him a good time. Read the rest of this entry »
“Leena, look–balls, hee hee.” Meet my older brother Dilip. Dilip and I are alike in many ways. We both love to talk a lot and tell jokes in a really loud voice, we are both brown, and we both giggle at silly things like the Malls Balls in Adelaide. Read the rest of this entry »
Adam and I were lucky enough to have several friends and family members come visit us in Australia. I say lucky because for a single round trip ticket to Australia from the US, one could feed a small African country for a year and buy a Super Bowl ticket, so we were endlessly grateful for all the love going around. But something tells me we wouldn’t get this many visitors if we had moved to Idaho… Read the rest of this entry »
My, I?ve been a bad blogger lately?this story is all the way from the beginning of July. But fear not–it is still entertaining and delicious. I?d bet my lemon pound cake on it. My latest class, gastronomic tourism, took us on another field trip to the McLaren Vale Wine and Cheese Trail. Read the rest of this entry »
The class I am in now is an elective called Gastronomic Tourism, which focuses on? gastronomic tourism. Yup. I?m getting my Masters degree so I can tell you things like THAT. Feel free to bow in awe now. Part of the class involves going on field trips that involve tourism, food and/or wine in some way. Score. Read the rest of this entry »
Not too long ago, friend and fellow blogger Jamie asked me what fall was like in Australia. It?s winter now, but I thought it would still be fun to inform the Yanks back home how the seasons seem to work here in South Australia. For starters, they have fountains all year long. Yay. Read the rest of this entry »
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