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Archive for Category: "Culinary Travel"

Travel Deals: Summer Fun with Friends & Family

Travel Deals: Summer Fun with Friends & Family

Spring break has come and gone, so now it’s time to finalize your spring to summer plans.  Whether you want a once-in-a-lifetime shopping excursion with your gal pals or a Canadian hockey game with the guys or to unwind together with some family time, we’ve got a deal for you. Food and Wine Excursion Treat [...]

Slideshow: A Foodie’s Tour Through Kyoto, Japan

Slideshow: A Foodie’s Tour Through Kyoto, Japan

Attention to detail and coaxing the best out of ingredients are hallmarks of Japanese cooking. Americans take pride in eating naturally and locally, something the Japanese have pursued for generations. Traveling foodie, David Latt, takes us along with him in Kyoto as he has lunch at a Zen monastery, explores the Diamaru food court, dines [...]

Finding Local Hot Spots: Chicago Neighborhoods

Finding Local Hot Spots: Chicago Neighborhoods

One of Peter’s top five tips for traveling Like a Local is to talk to the locals you encounter and ask them about their day-to-day routines. We sent radio producer Jordan Whitley to Chicago to test out Peter’s local travel tips and share her neighborhood finds.  Peter says Chicago one of his favorite cities. Having [...]

Travel Tip: Food Truck Safety

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 [...]

5 Secrets to Dining Out: A CBS This Morning Report

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 [...]

Tasting the Amalfi Coast

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

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 [...]

Peter’s Signature Dish Demo with Chicago’s Chef Christian Fantoni

Peter’s Signature Dish Demo with Chicago’s Chef Christian Fantoni

Around the world there are a few dishes that keep Peter coming back to a restaurant and a city. Recently, Peter sampled Chef Christian Fantoni’s Butternut Squash Cappellacci and sent correspondent Jordan Whitley back to Chicago to see how to recreate this winter classic. Chef Christian Fantoni, the newly appointed executive chef at Filini restaurant [...]