The fact that I travel to eat is know mystery. I think it is the best way to explore a country and its culture. Walking the markets, tasting the produce for sale, smelling the fresh scent of the sea from the fish mongers and aromas of ripening fruit. Eating in the small stall that caught … More Chilean Cuisine Cooking Class in Valparaiso – A Taste of Chilean Food
Gastronomic gluttony. A greasy game changer. Chorrillanas is the epitome of drunk food. A dish of excess that matches a night of the same. A heaping pile of French fries is the base and vessel for the rest of the artery clogging miscreants. Good start, right? What goes on top can vary, but never strays … More Chorrillanas – Chilean Edibles
Disclaimer: Before reading, this is an obvious controversial issue. If you are sensitive to the topic of hunting or to the realities of some cultures hunting practices, please don’t read. Eating polar bear meat has been a traditional part of the Inuit diet for centuries. It is their right to maintain cultural traditions and these … More Polar Bear Meat – Arctic Edibles
While some people use Mendoza as a base for trekking, the primary call of this city is definitely the abundance of superb Argentinian wines. Famous for their Malbec, it is far from the only wine produced here. Mendoza wine tours are the best way to discover not only the stunning area that’s nestled up to … More Mendoza Wine Tours – Trout and Wine Tours
Time and time again as I’ve returned to Chiang Mai, I have returned to the Chiang Mai Thai Cookery School. I have multiple reasons for this. To begin though, this was my first visit to Thailand. I knew nothing ultimately of Thai food, except what the average ‘farang’ thinks they know. Falling in love with … More Chiang Mai Thai Cookery School
From a forested meadow where goats and cattle graze to a whimsical glade where fairies would frolic to windswept mountain desert where life is hard. In just a few short hours the transition here is tremendous and the pay off, well, let’s just say more than worth it. The Cerro Castillo Day Hike is still … More Cerro Castillo Day Hike
At the south end of Parque Pumalin, Chaitén sits precariously near the base of a devastating volcano. This region and the town itself experienced it’s fury in an unexpected eruption in 2008. It has rebounded, although the signs of the gloomy past are still evident. Chaitén is an old, quiet town seemingly stuck in time … More Things to Do in Chaitén, Chile
Foraging is a skill of the past. Forgotten with time, globalization and mass consumerism has led us to the grocery store instead of the forests, mountains, fields and beaches. For centuries, cultures from the Arctic to the far reaches of Patagonia have sustained themselves off the land. Hunting has always remained widely practiced, but the … More Foraging Patagonia
How many of us avoid cooking like the plague? Even in home kitchens, the number of people that would prefer prepackaged and instant foods or go out to eat regularly goes up. While chefs in recent years have become glorified, I feel like the once basic life skill of cooking has slowly diminished. I imagine … More Camp Cooking 101
The world over, cuisines have a traditional dish made for a celebration. A party, special occasion or simply just a gathering of friends and family is enough. Not all, but a few that strike my attention require the use of an earth oven. Using the most simple and primitive cooking instruments that have been around for millennia. The earth itself and of course … More Curanto – Chilean Edibles