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.All Trips / Eastern Canada / Food / North America / Ontario
Ottawa’s Fabulous Byward Market
As many of you know, I am great fans of visiting markets during my travels. Besides the beautiful assortment of food and goods, markets are a wonderful place to watch people and relax with coffee and a tasty fresh snack. On a cold winter’s day, it’s often good to see the fresh bounty of summer (or in the case of our visit, fall).
Byward Market is a well known and long established market in Canada’s national capital, Ottawa. The market was begun in 1826 by John By, who gained fame as builder of the Rideau Canal. Mr. By laid out the street plan of the market, creating extra wide streets to facilitate the market as a gathering place for the area’s …
Tagged Byward Market, food, Market, Ottawa
.All Trips / Central USA / Colorado / Food / North America
Vail Farmer’s Market
During the summer months there’s a nice Farmers’ Market in Vail every Sunday. It’s situated on the north side of Gore Creek, on Meadow Drive, in close proximity to the town’s large parking structure. It compliments the nearby Minturn Market which is held on Saturday and many of the vendors from that smaller but more compact Minturn Market also show up at Vail.
The Vail market is, at least to my impression, significantly larger than the Minturn Market, although not its not as compact and fun to navigate. It features seasonal produce which mostly is grown in eastern and western Colorado. Not too much food is grown at the high elevation of Vail which …
Tagged farmer's market, food, Market, Vail
.All Trips / Asia / Food / India
A visit to Delhi’s Subyard-Okhla Market
Most of the inhabitants of our planet have very different shopping patterns from those living in the developed countries. They do not buy their groceries at Safeway, Costco or Tesco, but at local markets in their neighborhoods. Sometimes these markets have a series of small shops but often they are open air markets like the one I recently visited in Delhi.
There are dozens of vendors at some of the larger food markets in India, most with a unique product or small series of products (for example, the “onion and garlic” or “apple and orange” vendor, and so on). Sometimes you’ll find four or five vendors side-by-side selling exactly the same fruit or vegetable for exactly the same price. How does …
.All Trips / California / Food / North America / Southwestern USA
Roadfood — the best “American” food out there!
When many people think of “American food” they envision fast food — McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell and the like. These have their place — inexpensive, reasonable meals, quickly served and widely available. Those who have traveled with children know how handy stopping at a McDonalds with a play gym can be. Fast food is successful because people support these restaurants. That said, except when needing a quick meal while traveling, I rarely eat at fast food chains.
That’s because I enjoy reasonably priced, family-run restaurants which prepare great food, of which there are thousands in the United States. You might find some of these by searching “Yelp” or “TripAdvisor”, but by far the most useful website for me is …
Tagged El Campeon, food, Mexican restaurant, roadfood, San Juan Capistrano
.All Trips / Alberta / Food / North America / Western Canada
Calgary Farmer’s Market
Farmer’s markets in regions that have four seasons are, as you’d expect, different in character than those you find in tropical climates. Harvest is seasonal, so the best times to visit them is during the summer and early fall. Many Farmers’ markets in North America are only open during the summer months, shuttering for the winter. But not so for the larger markets in big cities.
Those markets that are open all year round need to adapt to the changes in the season. Most will be in an enclosed building which can be heated when needed (and which keeps you dry and cool in the summer, too). The local produce in the winter season is much more limited and includes produce …
Tagged Calgary, farmer's market, food, Market
.All Trips / Food / Nevada / North America / Southwestern USA / Travel Talk
Breakfast at Mary’s Hash House, Las Vegas, Nevada
Anyone who stumbled onto this blog searching for “hashish” might as well leave, because that’s not what this post is about. It’s about good food, not good weed.
The Las Vegas food scene has changed a lot since I first visited the city many years ago. Vegas used to be a place that catered mostly to hard-core gamblers (a description that in no way describes me). Food was cheap, often not that great, and used to lure gamblers into an establishment. For example, I recall “all you can eat” breakfast buffets for $0.99, lunch buffets for $1.99 and dinner buffets for $3.99. Foot long hot dogs or large shrimp cocktail — $0.99. Those prices were hard to beat!
Fast forward three decades …
Tagged food, Las Vegas, Mary's Hash House, restaurant
.All Trips / Europe / Poland
A Fall Visit to Krakow’s Hala Targowa Market
I love to visit farmers’ markets! I enjoy the colors, the friendly people and, of course, the chance to buy some top quality fresh foods. The entire experience lends itself to photography and exploration.
While in Krakow we visited two markets, both very good but very different in character. The larger of these, ‘Hala Targowa,’ is considered to be the city’s best outdoor market and is the one we’ll look at today.
During weekdays in the summer and fall, it’s a typical farmers market. Our visit was on a Friday in early October and the produce offerings reflected the season. There were lots of excellent plums, a large variety of monstrous apples, a few pears and lots of root vegetables. There were some …
“Pic of the Week”, November 6, 2015: La Chocolatta, Puenta Arenas, Chile
Situated on Chile’s southern coast, just north of Tierra del Fuego, the small city of Puenta Arenas is well off the main tourist paths in South America. The city is the capital of Chilean Patagonia as it is a gateway to Torres del Paine, and is a port for tourist ships that cruise the Patagonian fjords, the Beagle Channel (and some ships even go on to Antarctica). Puenta Arenas is a frontier town and a tax haven (to encourage migration and its growth), so it offers lots of shopping. Many Chileans travel here for the low prices.
We weren’t much interested in shopping for toasters or jackets, and had just a few hours to explore Puenta Arenas before taking a memorable …
Nov 5, 2015
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