Part VI: Birthday in Paris
And now for the final installment (I promise a bright citrusy tofu recipe for the next post! And garden updates! And other recipes in the very close future!) of our England-Paris trip–our final day in Paris which, coincidentally, was also my 25th birthday (no really, we didn’t plan it that way, it just worked out, … Read more
Part V: Gold, Bones, & Gaspard de la Nuit
Not every meal in Paris can be “THE BEST” meal, can it? I think it can. Who is to say that, with the right preparation, one can’t eat an entirely new and amazing and utterly delicious meal every single time? Point in case, Happy Nouilles, this fantastic little Chinese place on Rue Beaubourg. The draw? … Read more
Part IV: Love Letter to Paris
Oh Paris, you’re just amazing. That view you gave us from our apartment, the windows flung open to let the evening breeze finger through? I’ll never forget it. I’ll never forget the doves (pigeons, what have you) cooing from the rooftops, Marais unfolding as a series of terra cotta roofs. And that apartment! Sure it … Read more
Part III: The “Rest” of London
It’s hard to “see” any city in only a few days, so the “rest of London” is really quite a joke, but let’s just cram in the remainder of our London segment in this post, shall we? The first evening in London, strangely enough, we saw the Queen. Yup, she’s waaaaaaay back there in her … Read more
Part II: Foodie Adventure Day (FAD) in London
Sometime a while back I wrote to Monica of Smarter Fitter and wrote I’m coming to England in March, want to meet up? That one little email wasn’t the easiest to write, I’m never sure what people actually think of me (you think I’d be over that 5 years into this blog) and I’ve never … Read more
Part I: Tiverton & Minehead
It’s incredible to think that we’re back in the US–and have been for over a week now; one of those things where it seemed like the trip might never happen (we originally bought tickets for the festival in February of 2011) and now, poof, it’s over. Ready to be parsed and digested. Or at least … Read more
We Made It!!!!
Paddington Station We’re over in England & France for the next two weeks–hopefully I’ll update a bit as I go. But for now, we’ve been on the road/in the air for who knows how long, time to sleep!
Gymnopedie–Athens, GA
It’s very rare that a restaurant captivates me the way that Gymnopedie, in Athens, Georgia, did. It’s a tiny space–seats sixteen people–and it’s a vegetarian restaurant, something most chefs would shy away from, but it’s a space that tells stories–stories about food, about place, about each ingredient’s potential, and, most importantly, stories that reflect back … Read more
Athens, GA: Part I
That delightful virus that socked me a few weeks ago proved a bit of a dilemma: G & I had tickets to the Jeff Mangum show in Athens, GA–not only a long weekend away, but also the beginning of the culmination of a dream we thought we’d never see played out (seeing Mangum play live … Read more
Raleigh Wrap-Up: J Betski’s, Foundation, & The Federal
Well, The Federal is technically in Durham, but for brevity’s sake in the title, we’ll call it Raleigh… Oh my goodness, I’m seriously behind schedule here. I keep not getting things done during the week (i.e. not posting) and then I’m faced with a mountain of restaurant recaps and recipes. So! To tidy things up, … Read more
