I went to Hvar expecting to write about lavender ice cream and fancy harbor restaurants. I came back with a notebook full of fish stew recipes, an ongoing argument about the correct potato-to-fish ratio, and a mild addiction to a cheap sardine sandwich sold from a hut behind the market. This is a food island,…

Street food is one of the best parts of traveling, festivals, markets, and busy city weekends. The problem usually is not finding something good to eat. It is stopping yourself from trying everything in the first hour. A few rich dishes, fried snacks, sweet drinks, and desserts can leave you feeling uncomfortably full long before…

The Right Trek Depends on More Than the Mountain People lump these three routes together because they all sit in the same corner of Nepal and promise a look at the world’s highest peaks. But line them up side by side and you’ll see they’re really three different trips. The Pikey Peak Trek is a…

Snacking has a bad reputation, and most of that reputation was earned by the packaged aisle rather than by snacking itself. Eating something small between meals is a normal, sensible habit.  The problem is what usually gets reached for when hunger arrives, and nothing has been prepared. A bag of chips takes no effort, no…

One of the things people often wonder about before trekking in the Himalayas is surprisingly simple: what are we actually going to eat? Images of mountain trails often feature snow-covered peaks, suspension bridges, prayer flags in various colours and stunning mountain scenery. They don’t often open the door to the dining room at the end…

Every restaurant I have ever worked in or written about spends enormous energy on the coffee that goes out to the dining room. Almost none of them spend the same energy on the coffee that keeps the kitchen and front-of-house team functioning during a double shift. That gap is more common than you would think,…