When you’re hungry in Hungary, it’s not such a bad place to be. Classic Hungarian dishes are homestyle foods like hearty stews, meaty dishes usually with dumplings and lots of paprika, cakes and pies. And then there are Hungarian portions. Not exactly for people on a diet but comfort food is hard to pass up. Even when something tells […]
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Part II: The Ultimate Food Guide to Eating in Prague
A while back I told you about eating in Rome for four hours and drinking wine in the oldest wine cellar with Eating Europe. It was the best food tour we had ever done so we decided to do it all over again, this time a food tour in Prague. We met Jan (pronounced Yaan) – he […]
Part I: The Ultimate Food Guide to Eating in Prague
I can’t believe it’s been 8 years since Dan and I were last here. We spent only 4 days in Prague the first time and immediately we were hooked. We finally made it back but a lot has changed since then. Prague was a city still off the tourist radar. Very few Czech people spoke English when […]
Prague Beer and Czech Tapas
On any given menu in a Czech bar, beer is cheaper than any other drink you’ll find. Even cheaper than coke, water, or a cup of coffee in Prague. Over the years Czech Republic has become the country with the most beer drinkers in the world per capita. Surpassing Germany, and Belgium and all the other […]
Etyek Village: Budapest’s Secret Vineyard
Great wine is found in even the most unlikely of places. Like the time I discovered wine in Imola in Italy’s northern Emilia Romagna and most recently, wine country in Hungary. Yes, Hungary has its own wine region! Just a short drive from the capital to Etyek, this is the perfect day trip from Budapest. Although wine tourism […]
My Thai Cooking Class in Chiang Mai
Can you smell that? Curry is in the air! That is all I’ve been eating while living in Southeast Asia. We spent a combined three months in Thailand – mainly to eat Thai street food. Food is often what pulls us into destinations. A few kilometres outside of Chiang Mai, I took a Thai cooking class to […]