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Gulf Shores Delight

Lucy Buffett (yes, Jimmy’s sister) runs the exceedingly popular Lulu’s at Homeport Marina, a restaurant on the Intercoastal Waterway in Gulf Shores, Alabama. With service both indoors and out and live music, Lucy’s “high-class dive” attracts boaters, families, tourists and neighbors to dine on casual-beach-bar type food. Although Lulu’s features predictable Alabama pub fare heavy [...]

Summer Magic in the Farmers Market

Almost every city has a farmer’s market, but best of them all has to be the Dane County Farmer’s Market in Madison,Wisconsin. Held outdoors, rain or shine, every Wednesday and Saturday from May to November (and indoors, on Saturdays, in winter), the market draws the most crowds on summer Saturdays when vendors set up about [...]

¶ Posted 12 August 2011 † Susan Manlin Katzman § RECIPES § SALADS § SOUPS § TRAVEL ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cucumbers, Dane County Farmer's Market, Gazpacho, Greek salad, green peppers, tomatoes

CAPTAIN COOK CRUISES

Although he was not the first European to discover Fiji (Abel Tasman was in 1642), Captain James Cook is literally and figuratively credited as the first to put the archipelago on the world’s radar (such as the radar was in 1774). Therefore I thought it super symbolic to begin my exploration of Fiji on a [...]

¶ Posted 27 April 2011 † Susan Manlin Katzman § CRUISING § ENTREES § PASTA § RECIPES § THANKSGIVING § TRAVEL ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: bula, Captain Cook, Captain Cook Cruises, fettuccini, Fiji, kava, MV Reef Endeavour, pumpkin, rice

BELGIUM: FOOD SPECIALTIES

Belgium is a country of great diversity. Tucked between Holland and France, this small (about the size of Maryland) strip of a country sports a population of over 10 million and hosts not only the European Union, but also NATO and a slew of the world’s top international trade and finance companies. As one would [...]