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The Horrors of International Food Abroad
Warning: this post contains pretty disgusting food pictures. Most world travelers love a great variety of foods from across the globe, and this is often our downfall. It’s very hard to be satisfied...
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The Fruit and Vegetables of Mexico
One of my favorite things about living in Mexico is the overflowing bins of fresh produce for sale on every corner. My last stint in Latin America was in Argentina, a vegetable wasteland where I was...
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Diving Deep into Mexican Food with Vallarta Eats
I really do have the best husband. While other couples were doing, whatever romantic thing it is other people do on Valentine’s Day, we were methodically eating our way through Puerto Vallarta. Puerto...
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A Beginner Guide to Mexican Tacos
I have wanted to write about the incredible, diverse and delicious world of Mexican tacos for awhile, but it took me some time to gather enough information. A couple of weeks ago Mike and I spent a...
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Where to Eat in Sayulita Part One: Mexican Food
Sayulita is a small town with a lot of restaurants. There are probably 50-60 places to eat here, which is quite a lot for a town of 5000 people, don’t you think? Naturally, Michael and I spent a lot of...
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Where to Eat in Sayulita Part Two: Non-Mexican Food
Earlier this week I ran down my favorite places to eat Mexican food in Sayulita. Today I’m running down the best of the rest. Due to it’s high expat population, Sayulita has the kind of huge diversity...
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Anatomy of a Chicago Hot Dog
Chicago is famous for two foods really: pizza and hotdogs. Pizza I will go into in another post (and trust me, I have OPINIONS on that subject), but let’s start with the delightful oddity that is the...
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My Epic Quest to Love Chicago Pizza
Last week I told you guys about the unique phenomenon of the Chicago hot dog. Today I want to talk about something more well known, but far more controversial: Chicago-style pizza. Or most...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Thai Food
Brent had visited Thailand before he and I came together, and had told me stories of Thai cuisine that were the stuff of food fantasies: Dishes filled with fresh herbs like lemon grass and mint; and...
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Amazing Culinary Highlights of the Aria
You guys might hate me after this post. I’m really picky about which press trips I will accept, and I probably turn down at least 75% of the invitations I get for one reason or another. When I was...
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What is Sri Lankan Food?
To be honest, before this trip, I had no idea what Sri Lankan food was either. I knew they grew cinnamon there, and ceylon tea, but beyond that, not really anything. So it was a happy surprise to...
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A Guide to Jasper’s Foodapalooza
There aren’t a ton of things that would inspire me to travel to Northern Alberta in the dead of January, but I bet you can guess what one of them is. Food of course. When Tourism Jasper asked me to...
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How to Eat Alone (and Like It)
One of my biggest anxieties about traveling solo has always been mealtimes. I suspect I’m not alone in this. There is just something about sitting down at a restaurant by yourself that is foreign and...
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5 Things I Learned from Devour Barcelona
I think that food tours are hands down, one of the best ways to get to know a new city. Learning what the local people eat, and why is a perfect window into so many aspects of not just a places...
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7 Delicious Must Try Portuguese Foods
What is Portuguese food anyways? This was the question I asked myself almost immediately after we booked our plane tickets for Porto. I was intimately familiar with Spanish, Italian, even French food,...
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Inside Lisbon’s Incredible Mercado da Ribiera
I have seen heaven, and it is a food market in Lisbon. Imagine: a vast cafeteria, the size of a football field, serving up nothing but unique local food items at affordable prices. Imagine most of the...
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Soho: A Secret Foodie Paradise in the Heart of London
When I lived in London I went to Soho basically never. I went on a date in Chinatown once, and I’ve been to a West End show or two, but other then that I knew little, and cared less about the area....
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An Introduction to Canadian Cuisine
I never feel more Canadian than when I’m traveling. When I’m at home, I’m Jess; but as soon as I leave Canada, I become Jess the Canadian. The more I travel the more I realize that whenever I visit...
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Pupusas: An Ode to the Perfect El Salvadorian Dish
Spend a little time in El Salvador and I am sure you will come face to face with a thing called a pupusa. No, it isn’t an innuendo, no it isn’t a type of rodent or insect, and finally, no it isn’t a...
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How to Take on Puerto Rico’s Pork Highway
I write a lot about food and its connection to culture, so when I heard about Puerto Rico’s Pork Highway, it was immediately at the top of my list of things to do when visiting the island. The highway...
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