Posted in Deal Bites, Discounts!, Field Trips on Oct 22nd, 2009 1 Comment »
Our friends at Bottlenotes are hosting a wine tasting event in NYC – Friday, November 13. They are bringing in wineries from Argentina, California, Chile, China, France, Italy, Lebanon, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain and South Africa, just to name a few! Along with this terrific assortment of hand-crafted and estate wines will be Artisanal [...]
Posted in Field Trips, Tasting, Uncategorized on Aug 11th, 2009 2 Comments »
Here are a few of the menus from our very memorable dinners in Greece – the lunches were just as wonderful – however, we were too busy enjoying & biking – we didn’t record them!! We are still dreaming of the food in Greece – the tomatoes – unreal, the fresh capers, the fresh [...]
Posted in Articles, Field Trips on Dec 3rd, 2008 3 Comments »
If you are in the New York City area during the holidays, we have found a unique and affordable way to get some culture while filling your stomach.
Parla come Mangi “Speak Like You Eat”: the Italian Language & Culture Supper Club that will be held at Alloro (Italian restaurant in New York City that boasts [...]
Posted in Articles, Field Trips, Recipes on Sep 15th, 2008 5 Comments »
Upon arriving in Door County, WI – we saw advertisements for restaurants serving “Fish Boil’s”/ We had never heard of this and the name alone just does not evoke good thoughts! However being food obsessed as we all are, we had to investigate. Several in the group protested – boiled fish….ugh! We didn’t let the [...]
Posted in Field Trips, Food Finds on Jun 14th, 2008 3 Comments »
Ok, we realize that Farmers’ Markets have been a topic for us before, but we can’t stop talking about just how great they are. Whenever we go on our “food finding” field trips, they always include hitting the local farmer’s market ( remember our Pike’s Place visit). Buying local foods is so important: you get [...]
Posted in Field Trips, Recipes, Tips on Apr 24th, 2008 4 Comments »
Our chef Silvia gives cooking classes that are fun & action packed because she has the students do the cooking. Take a few minutes and enjoy a video of one of her classes. The menu she shares is:
*Grilled Portobello Mushrooms served over Field Green with Goat Cheese
*Bake Chicken with White Wine sauce ( one of [...]
Posted in Articles, Field Trips on Feb 13th, 2008 3 Comments »
We recently discovered a terrific website AVO:Market – a new online collaborative work created up by RISD design graduate Brittany Kleinman. She created this website to share her amazing project of gathering pictures of open air markets around the world. The site allows you to roam the markets by location, and other criteria. You can [...]
Posted in Field Trips on Sep 5th, 2007 4 Comments »
In early August we visited the farmer’s market in San Francisco, being totally pro eating as local as possible we couldn’t pass up the opportunity. It is held in front of the Ferry Building overlooking the bay, what a glorious way to spend a Saturday morning!
The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market is a operated by the [...]
Posted in Articles, Field Trips on Aug 14th, 2007 10 Comments »
On a recent trip to the San Francisco area, we took a drive over the beautiful Golden Gate bridge, enjoyed a delicious lunch in the very picturesque town of Tiburon – what a view! Usually we only talk about the food, but the view here is breathtaking. After lunch we headed up to the Napa [...]
Posted in Field Trips, Food Finds, Tasting on Jun 4th, 2007 10 Comments »
It all started last summer on a biking trip in Holland. We went to a very small cheese farm (farmstead cheese – if you read our cheese email you will know that farmstead describes cheese made solely from milk produced on the same farm.) De Willigen cheese & ice cream farm . Here [...]
