Archive for October 2024

Denmark is significant in the world of breakout cuisine boasting top rated cutting edge best new restaurants in the world. The Alchemist is the current chart topper. I skipped them all. I just don’t care. Sue me. This a meat blog. Instead we went to the venerable and iconic Hotel D’Angleterre Marchal restaurant on the…

I lived in Spain for my junior year in college. It left a mark. Franco had just stepped down. Spain was chaotic and exciting. I had six roommates: a fascist from Barcelona, an atheist, a communist from down south, two uptight Catholics from Galicia and a Bosque separatist who could really cook. Food brought us…

“Don’t be afraid but there are snakes everywhere,” said our motherly guide, Natalia, as we headed toward our yurt in the Karakum desert outside “The Gates of Hell.” Natalia ignited the Saksaul wood – a dense desert wood that burns for nearly two hours, and gives flavor similar to algarrobo wood from carob tree in…