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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Catching Up: August, September and October 2009 Stories
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, Asia Travel, On Adventure, On Culture & Trends, On Design & Art, On Food & Drink, On Places & Travel, Travel to Europe, Travel to Latin America, United States Travel on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shanghai, Stuttgart & Outer Space: Selected Luxist Stories from July
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, Asia Travel, Travel to Europe, United States Travel on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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
The Heat Seeker: Eat, Sweat, Love — The Travel Channel’s World Hum
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, Asia Travel, On Adventure, On Culture & Trends, On Food & Drink, On Places & Travel, On Too Much Information, Travel to Europe, Travel to Latin America, United States Travel on May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Bacon for Dessert, Talk about Pigging Out
Posted in Daybook, On Food & Drink, Travel to Europe, United States Travel, tagged bacon, desserts, food, savory desserts on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.
The Proper Way to Taste Chocolate
Posted in Daybook, On Food & Drink, On Places & Travel, Travel to Europe, United States Travel on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Explore London with an Insider’s Tour–TheStreet.com, 1/2/09
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, On Books, On Food & Drink, On Places & Travel, Travel to Europe on January 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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. [...]
Tourists of Evil Omen?
Posted in Asia Travel, Daybook, On Places & Travel, Travel to Europe, tagged mumbai, terrorism, travel on December 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Literary London, Fab Resources for Bookish Travelers
Posted in Daybook, On Books, On Places & Travel, Travel to Europe, tagged bookstores in London, literary travel, London, london literary maps on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Flee for Your Life Decidedly
Posted in Asia Travel, Daybook, On Places & Travel, Travel to Europe, tagged Beijing, Paris, terrorism, travel on December 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Hamdi in Istanbul, Turkey
Posted in Daybook, On Food & Drink, On Places & Travel, Travel to Europe on December 10, 2008 | Comments Off