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Paella mixta: saffron, arborio, seafood, chicken & love
Paella Mixta Paella mixta, paella with both seafood and meat, is one of the most satisfying meals to make at home. Maybe it’s the saffron: anything you make with that culinary gold is bound to fill...
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Bierbrasserie Cambrinus, Lace Museum and Canal Boat Ride: Bruges, day 3
Bierbrasserie Cambrinus Our third and last day in Bruges was a spectacularly full one. A first-rate lunch at Cambrinus was the centerpiece, surrounded by visits to the Sint-Salvators Cathedral, the...
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Snyder’s Restaurant & Stuggy’s Hot Dogs: Baltimore & Fells Point
Snyder’s Restaurant Two weekends before Halloween, Therese and I took Amtrak down to Baltimore, had lunch at Snyder’s Restaurant with her grandfather, and saw Fells Point on Saturday. Then on Sunday...
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Underground Pizza makes our pie half dairy free, half not
While exploring Manhattan’s Financial District in April and trying to decide whether we wanted to live there, we saw Underground Pizza, just a short two-block walk from where we would eventually put...
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Fraunces Tavern: Sunday brunch in the Financial District
Fraunces Tavern OK, I am just going to come out and say it: you should go to the Fraunces Tavern for Sunday brunch. Having said that, I acknowledge that there are numerous reasons I could concoct NOT...
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Lederhosen Restaurant: Our Foray-cation Ends in the West Village
Lederhosen Restaurant I never expected that we would have dinner at Lederhosen Restaurant last Sunday. Our plan for the day was pretty simple: a foray-cation to the East Village/Greenwich Village. We...
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MuseumsQuartier and Gelateria Hoher Markt on Day Two in Vienna
MuseumsQuartier and Gelateria Hoher Markt on Day Two in Vienna In Vienna, you don’t have to stray too far from the Ringstrasse to find some of the city’s greatest art museums. MuseumsQuartier, for...
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Weinstube Nikolaihof Brings Day Four in Austria to a Close
Weinstube Nikolaihof Brings Day Four in Austria to a Close On our fourth day in Austria, we had to cut short our visit to the Kunsthistorisches Museum and head to lunch at Gabel & Co., in order...
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Cassoulet By Sam Sifton Warms Our Winter Weekend
Cassoulet By Sam Sifton Warms Our Winter Weekend On Saturday morning three weekends ago, I had no plans to go on any culinary adventures. But then our Sunday NY Times arrived, as it always does, and...
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Amor by Robert Indiana on Sunday in Philadelphia
Amor by Robert Indiana on Sunday in Philadelphia After having a splendid Saturday in Philadelphia with our friend Faith that included visiting the Barnes Foundation for the first time and dinner at our...
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Marche Saint Marc Rouen and White Sausage Leek Potato Tart
Marche Saint Marc Rouen and White Sausage Leek Potato Tart Thus far, in talking about our time in Rouen, I have been indulging the “traveler” side of my dual blogging nature. That is, I have been...
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Rouen’s La Walsheim, Le Rocher and Chicken Normandy
Rouen’s La Walsheim, Le Rocher and Chicken Normandy The benefit of staying at our Rouen apartment (or gite), Au Petit Robec, was two-fold. On the one hand, its location was perfect, with many good...
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Our Daytrip to Colmar, France on Fête Nationale 2017
Our Daytrip to Colmar, France on Fête Nationale 2017 During most of our week in Strasbourg, Therese was in workshops with her company and its client, while I was free to roam about and explore. Toward...
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Settling into Our First Evening in Strasbourg France
Settling into Our First Evening in Strasbourg France It was quite the journey just getting to Strasbourg, France from Charleston, South Carolina. First there were the flights from Charleston to...
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Doge’s Palace, Ristorante Trovatore and San Zaccaria
Doge’s Palace, Ristorante Trovatore and San Zaccaria Just as with our week in Rome, my idea for our time in Venice was to get the real tourist-y stuff out of the way first. So on our second day in...
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