Garden to Table | Cuban Style
"El Jardin del los Milagros" Paladar translates to The Garden of the Miracles and is an oasis in Havana. The family home was converted into a restaurant after they closed their con...
5 Sentidos | A hidden gem in old Havana
I recently returned from Havana, Cuba, after spending a long weekend as part of the Road Scholars tour group. They organize a very busy schedule but offer free time for a dinne...
Rochester’s Chicken French and then Some
The NY Times Food Section recently mined their data and reported that Rochester's own Chicken French aka, Chicken Francese, was their most viewed and liked recipe for 2018. One w...
Healthy, Tasty and Lucky Black Moss
Years ago, Hong Kong was a welcome stop on my solo trip around the world videoing cooking schools. Chopsticks Cooking Centre in Kowloon, on the Chinese mainland and a f...
35,000 Tons of Happiness
That's 70,000 pounds of world-famous, award-winning Sponge Candy produced by Watson's Chocolates every year. This western New York confectioner started production in 1946 when t...
My Love Affair with Seckel Pears
It all began when I was growing up. My parents owned property on Canandaigua Lake which had orchards bordering their land. The private road, and I mean a very rough, curvy, sloping...
About
I recently returned to Rochester, NY, after living in food and wine locations and traveling solo around the world filming cooking schools. Those videos can be viewed on cookingtipsfromaroundtheworld.com
I left the Sonoma Valley after the fires devastated the area. I decided the time had come to go back to my roots and explore the local food and wine producers here.
I’ve had friends send me Rochester food specialties and realized I missed those old flavors. The food and wine scene has exploded in Western New York and it will be fun to revisit old tastes and explore new. Now that travel has opened up, I'm going to return to Santa Fe, NM and back to the SF Bay Area and report on those food items new generations have made popular, as well, as the old staples that everyone loves.
I will be posting my findings and welcome you to join me along the way.
Should you have suggestions or comments, I can be reached at linda@anexpatreturns.com
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