This post was sponsored by the California Strawberry Commission. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I sat gazing out of the airplane window with one thing on my mind: strawberries. No, I wasn’t just caught up in another one of my random food-centric fantasies. I was actually on my way from Atlanta to Monterey …
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A woman butchering live frogs. A platter of pig brains. Buckets squirming with live eels. These were just some of the intriguing sights that I encountered as I pushed my way through a bustling Hanoi street market during a recent trip to Vietnam. I was taking part in a cooking class through Viet Village restaurant. …
I didn’t know what to expect attending my first Paleo f(x) conference at the the Palmer Events Center in Austin, TX. The Paleo movement seems to encompass such a wide array of individuals–from Cross Fit enthusiasts and body builders, to health practitioners and food bloggers–that I wondered how a single conference could manage to cater to …
During our recent journey to Peru, we took a welcomed break from huffing and puffing our way up and down the hills of Cusco to attend the Marcelo Batata cooking class. I was pretty excited about what would be in store for us due to its high rating on Trip Advisor and the fact that I had never …
This summer, I took my first trip to Jamaica, and all in all it was a truly amazing experience. The natural beauty…the culture…and, of course, the food. Here are five pretty amazing foods that I discovered while there that I hope to incorporate in my future cooking endeavors. 1. Ackee Ackee is the national fruit of …