Archive for Category: "Culinary"
Savvy Souvenirs: Shopping in Amsterdam
What’s the best way to take a little piece of Amsterdam home with you? Travel correspondent Alyssa Caverley’s Savvy Souvenirs report takes you beyond the obvious tulip bulbs and wooden clogs and let’s you in on an authentic piece of Dutch culture—Jenever or gin. Jenever is all over the Netherlands. For the best experience, go [...]
Travel Tip: Food Truck Safety
Eating street food isn’t just something to experience in Southeast Asia. We’re now seeing mobile food vendors all over North America. But how can you know that what you’re eating is really good for you? Well now you can rest assured, because in most of North America, street vendors actually have submit to health inspections [...]
Window Seat or Aisle Seat: Unplugging Family Vacations
Smartphones are great for keeping kids entertained on the road, but all too often we find gadgets getting in the way of family time. Window Seat or Aisle Seat columnist Kerri Zane looks at the growing trend of family unplugging vacations and shares the top five tips for going offline when you travel. It seems [...]
5 Secrets to Dining Out: A CBS This Morning Report
What’s the most common thing that happens when we travel? We go to different destinations, stay at different hotels, use different means of transportation, but we’re all eating outside of our homes. Peter returned to CBS This Morning and his 5 Things Travelers Don’t Know series to shed light on some unknown but not uncommon [...]
4 Ways to Reset Your 2012 Goals This Spring
Remember the end of 2011 when you diligently made your New Year’s resolutions? You vowed lose weight, get more active and eat better. You may have fallen off the wagon, but spring is here and so is Fit Globetrotter Dena Braun-Roché with four new ways to reinvigorate those same resolutions. If you’re like the majority [...]
A First-Timer’s Guide to Taiwan’s Highlights and Lowlights
In many cases, Americans don’t even know where Taiwan is and fewer have ever gone there. Despite posturing about “who really is China” and “who belongs to whom,” we’ve always believed travel is an excellent tool to break down barriers, so we sent Julie Alvin, who’d never been there, to report back on what to [...]
Tasting the Amalfi Coast
For an authentic taste of Italy, get outside the major cities and into the coastal villages. Foodie contributor Jason Kessler shares his experience at home of limoncello on the Amalfi Coast. While lemons may grow all over Italy, the undisputed maestro di limoni is the beautiful Amalfi Coast where native sfusato lemons grow to the [...]
Celebrity Chefs & the New Puerto Rican Cusine
Puerto Rican cuisine is evolving along with the food culture. In advance of the Saborea Puerto Rico Culinary Festival next month, Dena Braun-Roché heads to the island to examine how celebrity chefs are modernizing traditional recipes. As the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico evolves, it’s no surprise that its cuisine is changing too. Today you can [...]
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