Johnny X’s New Year from Pretzels to Surfboards
affiliate program Traveling Teddy Johnny X ran hot and cold on travel early in the New Year—heading north to frozen Michigan and out west to sunny San Diego. Johnny X is the SATW Traveling Teddy who globetrots for the third-grade class of Meredith Schroeder at St. Joseph Consolidated School in Hamilton, Ohio. Right after he [...]
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Delicacies Every Step of the Way in Wales
affiliate program Welsh cakes, steamed mussels, coffee generously fortified with Penderyn Welsh whisky—it’s a blur of delights when you wander the sandy coves and rocky slopes of Wales, fork at the ready. Come along with me on a foodie frenzy —who knows, you may even grow to love laverbread, that deep-black seaweed the Welsh pop [...]
Keep Reading...Create Your Own Hershey Chocolate Dream Bar
affiliate program Yes, it’s great fun to visit Hershey®’s Chocolate World in Hershey, Pa., but how much better to get in there and pull levels, pick your ingredients and make your own chocolate bar? The new Create Your Own Candy Bar gives you the factory apron and hairnet, and sets you loose. Want graham crackers [...]
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Pamplona’s Rodero Serves Michelin-Star Surprises
I’m just back from Pamplona, Spain, and there’s much more to this ancient Roman settlement than just stampeding bulls. One of the pleasures is the farm-to-table cuisine at such fine dining restaurants as Rodero, a second-generation spot that has earned a Michelin star. Read about my surprising Michelin-starred lunch at Restaurante Rodero.
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Savor a Dubai Delight: The Imploding Dessert
Are you really ready for a splurge? Next time you’re in Dubai, I’d recommend the Culinary Flight at the Burj Al Arab resort, a progressive dinner that unfolds all within the sail-shaped building itself. Cocktails might start over mango lobster brioche with soya bean caviar, or maybe chicken caesar salad in a parmesan crisp. Cocktails [...]
Keep Reading...Ashley Savors the Sweet Side of New York
Ashley the Traveling Teddy indulged her sweet tooth in New York City’s Lower East Side, popping into Economy Candy and Sugar Sweet Sunshine Bakery. Ashley travels for the third-grade class of Meredith Schroeder at St. Joseph Consolidated School in Hamilton, Ohio. The Traveling Teddy program is a geography outreach of the Society of American Travel [...]
Keep Reading...Junk Food–Noshing Lost in Translation
By Naomi Lewin Globespinners Guest Blogger Your bags are packed; you’ve got your plane tickets, your passport, and your Red Michelin guide, with circles around all the multi-forked restaurants you’re dying to try. But when you’re traveling abroad, don’t neglect the junk food. I have no problem resisting American junk food like potato chips, corn [...]
Keep Reading...Savoring the World in Her Own Backyard
Who says the horrible new term, “staycation,” has to translate into a horrible “zzzz-cation” loitering around the house? Guest blogger Marci Tangi has created a week’s worth of poolside and deck events at her home just north of Cincinnati. She’s dreamed up a different international feast and concert for every day and night of the week, [...]
Keep Reading...Daydreaming of Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons
By Betsa Marsh I’m so addicted to “Last Restaurant Standing” with Chef Raymond Blanc on BBC America that I’m thinking back to a stay at his elegant Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons in Great Milton, outside Oxford. The Manor House. Betsa Marsh photo The manor dates back to 1225 and beyond, but the modern retrofitting [...]
Keep Reading...Ecco’s Pommes Frites Beckon in Atlanta
By Betsa Marsh Whenever I’m in Belgium, I promise myself that I won’t dive into those fabulous fries, pommes frites, and drag them through mounds of house-made mayo. And then someone orders them and they arrive at the table and smell so good… well, what can you do? Now I’ll have to steer clear of [...]
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