Pickle Deli Square

May 19

May 19 Stockmann Bakery, Daily

I was in Helsinki for three days, and each day I had some excuse to try out the pastries at Stockmann department store...

May 19

May 19 Dutch White Asparagus Tips from NY Times

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Food

Learning more about white asparagus...

May 19

May 19 Helsinki Eats: Loft restaurant

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Food

We had been walking around rainy Helsinki for a while, looking for a place to eat lunch...

May 19

May 19 Finland McDonald's - green food

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Food

Every country I go to, I like to visit McDonald's to see what menu items might be unique to that country...

May 9

May 9 Asparagus

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Food

Asparagus is one of the main events of spring, and the Dutch people take asparagus really seriously...

May 6

May 6 Dutch-inflected McDonald's

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Food

This winter, McDonald's had special "winter weeks" featuring rookworst (smoked sausage, very Dutch), stroopwafel McFlurry (McFlurry with caramel-laced cinnamon-y cookie pieces), and three different kinds of burgers representing different cities of the Netherlands...

Mar 29

Mar 29 Tiniest Celery

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Food

Later, I was at the Saturday Market at my usual vegetable seller's stall, and I noticed that they had selderij...

Mar 12

Mar 12 De Distilleerketel Windmill, Rotterdam

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Netherlands, Food

Buying flour from an actual, working Dutch windmill!

Feb 22

Feb 22 NY Eats: bakery roundup

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Food

On this trip to New York, I had the good fortune to try a few well-known bakeries, including Bouchon Bakery and Momofuku Milk Bar...

Feb 22

Feb 22 NY Eats: Fried Chicken mini-roundup

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Food

I had the urge to try a couple different fried chicken places...

Feb 20

Feb 20 Breakfast at Chipotle

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Food

Prior to my trip back to the US, I had already planned on going to the Chipotle inside Washington-Dulles airport to eat breakfast. This is the ONLY Chipotle location in the world to serve breakfast...

Jan 6

Jan 6 "Fancy" Restaurants: San Diego

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Food

Casual restaurants like the eateries on Convoy or Souplantation are my favorite places to go in San Diego, but this trip afforded the opportunity to try out a couple fancy pants restaurants...

Jan 5

Jan 5 Kyochon: Korean Fried Chicken

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Food

Getting from Westwood to downtown LA required a change from bus to subway in Koreatown, so I used this as an excuse to try out Kyochon Chicken, a chain of fried chicken restaurants from Korea...

Jan 5

Jan 5 Monte Alban: a brief tour through Oaxacan cuisine

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Food

Having spent four months in the Netherlands, one of the top tastes I craved coming back was Mexican...

Dec 4

Dec 4 Sinterklaas-season Food

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Food

Since tomorrow is the day when Dutch people celebrate Sinterklaas, I thought it would be timely to share some of the Sinterklaas-season food I've been tasting the last few weeks...

Nov 22

Nov 22 American (fast food) in Europe

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Food

Representing America through fast food in Europe...

Oct 19

Oct 19 Going to Market: food stalls part 2

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Food

In addition to the fried fish, fried chicken, and fried potato stalls at the market, there's also a bunch of more unique food options...

Oct 19

Oct 19 Going to Market: food stalls part 1

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Food

There are quite a few markets around Eindhoven; the ones I've been to are the Tuesday market in town center, the Wednesday market in the parking lot of Winkelcentrum Woensel, and the Saturday Woenselse Markt...