Catching Up: August, September and October 2009 Stories

Oh how woefully neglectful I’ve been in keeping up with this, my portfolio blog! It’s definitely been a busy few months, I’ve traveled to Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, Oregon, Sweden and Mexico, and have been very busy working on stories throughout.  I also started to write a weekly essay for the most-excellent Perceptive Travel, while [...]

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Shanghai, Stuttgart & Outer Space: Selected Luxist Stories from July

Here are a few of my favorite Luxist stories this month.

Vacation with the Obamas on Martha’s Vineyard 7/20/09
Hot Cars and Red Wine: 4 Ways to Do Stuttgart 7/15/09
Langham Yangtze Boutique Opens in Shanghai 7/18/09
Four Reasons to Toast July 4th with Rum 7/1/09
That Other Moonwalk 7/3/09

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The Heat Seeker: Eat, Sweat, Love — The Travel Channel’s World Hum

Today starts my five-part series for World Hum on my quest for the spiciest food I could take. (And there’s video of me talking about it too!) It’s a story that took several years to research and then a long while to write, but I’m pretty proud of it, so have a look!
Part One: Currywurst [...]

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Bacon for Dessert, Talk about Pigging Out

A quick overview of the ongoing trend of using bacon in dessert. I was checking out the new cheap eats site, 3 Buck Bites, a new endeavor of Citysearch, when it caught my eye: chocolate-covered bacon at Ronie-Sue’s Bakery in lower Manhattan, which costs a mere dollar.

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The Proper Way to Taste Chocolate

Last summer, on a trip to research a food story in Portland, Oregon (did you know that it’s a city that makes your jeans shrink? ) one of my stops was at Cacao, where I learned the proper way to taste chocolate.
Just as you don’t chug down wine to properly taste it,  you also don’t [...]

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Explore London with an Insider’s Tour–TheStreet.com, 1/2/09

I’m still in Petit St. Vincent, which means this blog post comes to you via my BlackBerry (while I lounge around counting all the shades of blue in the sea)…which matters because I’m not sure how to embed a link for my latest column on London tours for TheSteet.com.
Okay, I figured it out.
Here’s the link. [...]

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Tourists of Evil Omen?

A couple of days ago, I discussed my odd travel karma of having been in a few places this past year that became victims of terror attacks.
Well,  this couple has me beat.  Jason and Jenny Cairns-Lawrence were in New York City for 9/11, London for the attacks of July 7th, 2005, and then in Mumbai [...]

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Literary London, Fab Resources for Bookish Travelers

I was just researching my next column for TheStreet.com, which will be about insider’s tours of London –recommendations for lovers of food, shopping, movies, the environment, and, because I love them, books.  (As I mentioned earlier, I did a little bookstore crawl during my last London visit, which included Persephone Books pictured at left.)
I discovered [...]

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Flee for Your Life Decidedly

It seems I have had some odd travel karma in 2008: two places that I visited became terrorist targets.
One, the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower in Mumbai, and the other, more recently, Printemps, the Parisian department store , which was evacuated after five sticks of dynamite were discovered in the men’s department, just a week [...]

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Hamdi in Istanbul, Turkey

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