Our weekend in Bursa would not have been complete if we had not tried the dish that was made famous there, Iskender Kebab. Everyone has heard of Döner Kebab, juicy tidbits of meat layered on a vertical spit. Typically in Turkey, your choices are et (beef) or tavuk (chicken), sometimes the “et” could be a […]
Category Archives: Food
Traveling for food is such an important aspect for learning about a culture. Not only do we try to find the best local food to try, we look into the history, and we bring home a recipe or two.
Old Milwaukee Cafe and Dessert Company is located in downtown Tacoma, Washington. Go there for the amazing breakfast options. You won’t be disappointed–unless you can’t get a seat. If you ever watched Seinfeld and the “Soup Nazi” episodes, you could have a similar experience, but only for breakfast. The very small cafe (8 tables) is […]
Just loving our time in Oklahoma City, we had to eat in one of the oldest, best restaurants in town, the Cattlemen’s Steakhouse. In every western town in the U.S. where there’s cows, there’s steak. So we drove around the corner, on the main artery through town, and there it was…the famous Cattlemen’s Steakhouse! There’s […]
After leaving one of our favorite cities in the world, we drove along the gorgeous Mosel river which is studded with imposing castles and fortresses and steep, steep vineyards. Any given weekend, you can find a wine festival to attend and try the local product. On this particular weekend, we were heading to the town […]
Bulgaria is full of quaint little charasmatic towns and Velinko Turnovo might just be the cutest. As we drove in, we stopped to talk to a shepherd with a small goat flock. He was right on the edge of town, and as we chatted with him, we could also view the huge and picturesque fortress […]
Eating in Bulgaria I really didn’t know what to expect as far as Bulgarian food goes. Maybe a cross between borscht, gyros, and kofte. To be honest, even though I was looking forward to trying it, I really didn’t have high expectations. After living in Turkey, where the food is never, ever bad, I just […]
When I lived in Turkey before, your main course was always accompanied by white rice with pine nuts (pilav – pronounced “pilau”). Nowadays, due to increased prices, white rice is often not available. What the Turks have done instead is substitute it with bulgur pilav, which is not rice at all, but cracked wheat. It […]
Kunefe is a desert that is made from shredded yufka sandwiching, a stringy cheese such as kaşar, cooked in a pan over a flame, then served with a sugary water. In Ankara there are plenty of restaurants that offer this delicacy, but other than it being heated up on a flame, I’ve never seen its […]
Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand After a hard and chilly day of visiting the Franz Josef Glacier, warm up at the Blue Ice Restaurant in town. It has it all. There is a bar with a fast food and pizza menu on the top floor (Wednesday nights are Karaoke nights) and on the bottom floor […]
Konya is known for a number of things, most notably the whirling dervishes of the Sufi sect. We had already visited a dervish show, so this time we were here for the food. The city is also well-known for its meat dishes. We’ve tried a meat borek that is delicious, and one really great dish […]
Before moving to Asia, I never really considered an eggplant worth eating. I had had the occasional moussaka, but other than that it was completely lacking from my diet. Apparently in many parts of the world, it was reputed to drive people insane and was called the “mad apple”. Now, I think it should be […]
Aw, it can’t be that bad? Millions of Koreans swear by them; what? Oh, intestines, large ones – Makjang, a Korean Delicacy. Apparently in Daegu, it’s the snack o’ choice to slosh down some Charm Soju. So we order some; at least they don’t come to us in one long coil. They’ve been cut into […]