Worldly Food Archive

  • Serendipity 3 and a Bald Man

    Serendipity 3 and a Bald Man

    Let’s start this by saying I love chocolate. I love the smell, I love the shape, and I love the taste. I want to make out with it. I want to bathe in it. I want my clothes to be made of chocolate so I...

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  • "Monkeying" around!

    “Welcome to Barbados, Where the Coldest Thing about our Weather is our Beer.”

    As a travel junkie and a writer, I always look forward to my favourite travel magazine arriving in my mailbox. There is something alluring about that glossy cover, the beautiful photographs (always much better than my own) and that smell of ink and dust. I...

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  • Dan, Mitsuhashi and Me at Standing Bar Clover

    An Excellent Pub: Standing Bar Clover, Shinjuku, Tokyo

    When I was a kid, I loved to watch the American sit-com Cheers. I loved Sam, Diane, Carla, Norm, Woody and of course Cliff Claven. Despite the fact that the show took place almost entirely inside a bar in Boston, and as someone under the...

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  • berry

    A Miracle Berry Adventure: Tokyo, Japan

    Cat cafes, karaoke rooms, wild game arcades … As a city Tokyo feel endless: you can find and do almost anything here, including the strange, the kawaii and the absolutely ridiculous. Wander the streets of Harajuku on any night of the week and you’ll see hoards of...

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  • Kuglehopf Cake

    Australian Food Revelations: Kugelhopf and Monarch Cakes

    One of my favorite things about travel is the eating part. I’m admittedly not very adventurous when it comes to trying meat things – I’ve yet to have kangaroo or any of the other critters that are eaten almost exclusively in Australia – but I’ll...

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    Giant Markets: La Central de Abastos de la Ciudad de México

    I’ve spent the last three weeks in San Blas, Nayarit, a small fishing town on Mexico’s Pacific coast. During my time here exploring a few of the little coastal towns, it is obvious that Mexican cuisine relies mainly on open air markets and local, in-seasons...

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