A street food tour of Mexico City was high on our agenda during the two weeks that we settled into Mexico City on the yearlong global grand tour that launched Grantourismo. We’ve always loved street food and loved Mexican cuisine since our first trip to Mexico in the mid-1990s, so when we arrived in the … Read more
Cooking, music, film, film and music, food and film… so far, we’ve done it all in Austin. We learned to barbecue, we met local musicians, we’ve seen lots of music, we’ve talked music with a record storeowner, and we’ve talked music with a filmmaker… So why not have a country music cooking lesson with a … Read more
The number of taco places in Austin is mind blowing – from white tablecloth restaurants to humble roadside stands, from dawn to the dead of night, you’ll find tacos on a menu or a blackboard somewhere in this Texas town. Everyone in Austin has advice on tacos, so in order to narrow down the field … 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
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