Pickle Deli Square

Dec 31

Dec 31 Trip Report: SFO-IAD-FRA-VLC part I

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Trip Report

On my return to Spain, my journey started out in the United Club...

Dec 27

Dec 27 San Diego Eats: Shaved Ice at Iceskimo

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Food

Shaved ice has arrived in San Diego!

Dec 21

Dec 21 Trip Report: AMS-IAD-SAN Part II

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Trip Report

Continuing on to San Diego, I had a layover in IAD where I got to try the United Club's "new, improved" food. Definitely a step up from before!

Dec 21

Dec 21 Trip Report: AMS-IAD-SAN part I

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Trip Report

The United Festival of Salmon...

Dec 20

Dec 20 Cologne's Christmas Markets

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Travel

I decided to make the most of an overnight layover and make a small trip to Cologne. At this time of year the city has its famous Christmas markets!

Dec 5

Dec 5 Expat Thanksgiving, another year

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Home Cooking

This being my third year cooking Thanksgiving in Spain, I'm lucky now that I have friends I can invite to Thanksgiving, and I've gotten the routine of cooking Thanksgiving with local ingredients and resources pretty down pat!

Nov 8

Nov 8 San Sebastian Eats: Three Michelin Star dining at Akelarre

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Food

San Sebastián supposedly has the densest concentration of Michelin stars in the world, and I wanted to try one of the three star restaurants around town...

Nov 8

Nov 8 A Weekend of Cooking at the Basque Culinary Center

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Cooking Class & Food Tour

The first day was devoted to traditional Basque cooking, while the second focused on avante-garde pintxos...

Oct 15

Oct 15 Barcelona Eats: Japan Fever

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Food

In my weekend in Barcelona, I got the sense that all things Japanese are really hot now in Barcelona...

Oct 15

Oct 15 Barcelona Eats: Gyoza roundup

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Food

Coming from Valencia, I was really craving good Asian food. Asian Asian food, not Asian fusion which is quite popular in Valencia. So it turned out that in three days, I had gyoza three times...

Oct 10

Oct 10 Cooking class at the Espai del Peix in Palamós, Spain

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Cooking Class & Food Tour

In the fishing village Palamós north of Barcelona along the Costa Brava, is a museum where you can take cooking workshops...

Sep 13

Sep 13 La Pobla de Farnals soup festival

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Festivals

This month, I attended one day of the weeklong village festival of La Pobla de Farnals, where the tradition is to eat caldera, a rice stew...

Aug 28

Aug 28 Valencia Eats: Menú del día at Macellum

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Valencia Eats

Macellum is a restaurant located in my favorite corner of the old Valencia city center - the quiet, yet charming northeast part of the neighborhood. The streets are windy, the buildings are historic, but there is a distinct lack of tourists and touristy shops...

Aug 25

Aug 25 Trip Report: SFO-FRA-VLC part II

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Trip Report

Business Class on Lufthansa FRA-VLC with dinner!

Aug 25

Aug 25 Trip Report: SFO-FRA-VLC part I

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Trip Report

United Airlines Boeing 747-400 Upper Deck from SFO to FRA

Aug 22

Aug 22 SF Eats: House of Prime Rib

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Food

House of Prime Rib has been on my list of places to go SF since nearly when I moved to the city, and finally I made reservations to go!

Aug 21

Aug 21 SF Eats: Ferry Building Farmers Market

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Food

I do try to make a point of visiting the Ferry Building Farmer's Market on Saturdays. Yes, it's popular with tourists and can get crowded. But it's still where I've had revelatory encounters with fruits and vegetables, and the location on the bay is just beautiful...

Aug 21

Aug 21 SF Eats: The Standards

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Food

My favorite places to eat in San Francisco.

Jul 31

Jul 31 Trip Report: VLC-ZRH-SFO

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Trip Report

First time flying SWISS Business Class!

Jul 26

Jul 26 Cooking at Home: Lumpy Space Princess cheesecake

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Home Cooking

Gosh I hope this doesn't end up on cake wrecks! I'm pretty proud of this actually - my first time making a cheesecake, and my first time working with fondant!