

Weakness
I have a weakness for white rooms peppered with teak minimilist furniture. It especially helps if there are hairpin legs on each table. ...


Best "Food" Forward at Reno Party in the Park
Every foodie's fantasy is perhaps gorging on heaps of food, served to you, platter by platter, first to be enjoyed for all its essence,...


What to Do with Watermelons
Forgive me as I begin this blog post lamenting how close to the end of summer we are. I'm sorry to bring up the obvious, but trust me,...


L'Impossible: An Impossibly Impossible Dinner in Chamonix
Chamonix is very touristy town and as is common with all touristy towns, good, clean food is hard to find. We stumbled upon this...


The Scoop on IceCycle Creamery
"If you know how to read, you'll never get lost," my mother used to say when I was learning how to navigate the chaotic streets of Manila...


Salty-Savory-Sweet Spices and Teas: The World in a Bottle
Sometimes, the most briliant, fearless, and radically passionate of ideas surface while picnicking in a garden across from the Palais...


Cappuccino Snobs: The Cannon in Hamilton, Ontario
I'm back in Canada (eh) and while I've always had a tame time in Canada, their coffee never disappoints. We ended up in Hamilton, a town...


Food with Thought: A Toast and Taste of Summer
At the invitation of Yelp's Community Manager in Reno, Michael Tragash, and generous complimentary tickets from the Atlantis, I found...


Breadwinner Series: Gourmet Grilled Cheese
A couple of weekends ago, I had the privlege of a rare private tour of local purveyor of kickass sourdough bread, Truckee Sourdough...


Postcards from Seattle
Our little Washington long weekend bookended in Seattle. With not much time to spare, we spent the little time we had there enjoying...







































