We are pleased to present the first installment of a new soon-to-be-extremely-popular feature on Travel*Food*Cool: The Mustard Report. Mustard is a condiment made from the seeds of the mustard plant. Whether white or yellow, brown or black, mustard is one of the most popular […]

  In honour of today being February 29, “année bissextile” (Leap Year), I decided to write about something so special that you should definitely not wait four more years to try. If I have ever spoken to you about eating in Paris, you can skip […]

This may be one of the most beautiful bottles ever. The distinct orb shape makes Chambord extremely easy to identify. The question, however, is what exactly is Chambord and how do I use it? Chambord is a mix of red and black raspberries, Madagascar vanilla, […]

Most food lovers have seen the film “Julie and Julia”. If you can, recall back to the turning-point scene where Julia and Paul Child are sitting in a beautiful little French restaurant, and Julia decides that she likes to eat, so she should learn to […]

East meets Italy in this global twist of an Chinese classic. Dinner reboot – Taking some leftovers and turning them into a new meal that does not at all resemble the original meal. In this meal we are going to use leftover rice, leftover porchetta […]

Italian porchetta (sadly we are not making this) In Italy, I need a bumper sticker that says “I brake for porchetta trucks”. I have been known to make impromptu U-turns upon spotting a porchetta truck, to pick up sandwiches or sliced porchetta. Porchetta is not […]

The other day while I was walking Miss Corona, I passed by a local Italian pizza restaurant. The place was decorated like a 1950s Italian restaurant. Each table was topped with a red and white checkered tablecloth and a straw-bottomed wine bottle with a candle in it. Very […]