Anything to do with eating and drinking!
On the long flight to New York City from Tokyo, I drifted through an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations while lying comfortably horizontal in Cathay Pacific’s brilliant business class ‘coffin’. Lamenting his middle age (the former whippet-thin, ex-junkie chef Anthony Bourdain has put on a few pounds) and lack of knowledge of New York’s … Read more
New York’s speakeasies were hiding away some of the best cocktails in New York City, we’d been told. We also kept hearing that PDT (Please Don’t Tell) was one of the best cocktail bars in the East Village. So one evening, as we were walking right by the address where PTD was meant to be, … Read more
An eggs Benedict recipe. How could I do anything else for the New York City edition of our Weekend Eggs series on quintessential eggs dishes around the world? Could there be a more quintessential New York eggs dish than eggs Benedict? An eggs Bennie is to New Yorkers what smashed avocado and poached eggs is … Read more
Cooking in Bali with Desak, our villa chef, ended up being one of the highlights of our two-week stay at our Balinese villa, allowing us to tick off a few grand tour goals – learning from locals, learning to cook the local cuisine, and giving back. I taught Desak Western dishes in exchange for her … Read more
These Balinese saté and ayam betutu recipes make classic barbecued Balinese skewers and a traditional dish of chicken or duck (bebek betutu) that is marinated, wrapped in a banana leaf, and steamed. Both require the basa gede Balinese sauce recipe in the last post. In my last post from Indonesia’s Hindu island Bali, I gave you a basa … Read more