Dig up your sexiest Speedo and a bottle of sunscreen — we’re flying to Oahu! In Hawaii, every meal is the most important of the day — who cares about beach bods when there are so many delicious thing to eat?? Start off strong with the best sweet breakfast imaginable, Leonard’s malasadas. They’re softball-sized balls… Continue reading Aloha `Oe
Category: Around the world
The Incident of the Crying Tacos
Let’s just say it was one of my least proud moments as a foodie on the road thus far. It was in Mexico City back in May, at one of the handful of food stands set up outside the hospital where I was working, tucked under a pedestrian bridge that spanned from the Walmart parking… Continue reading The Incident of the Crying Tacos
Finding Childhood Classics Across the Bay
Remember what things were like as a kid, walking uphill both ways to school, in a blizzard, or having to swallow a fried egg whole before one of your thirteen siblings got to it? Times were rough, the world was harsh, but you could still buy a pound of bacon for 47 cents. Ah, if… Continue reading Finding Childhood Classics Across the Bay
Medellin, First Impression
The taxi driver brought by my colleague to pick me up from the airport is asleep in the passenger side of his teeny, trunk-less car; we knock on the window and he wobbles out, a small brown man in a rumpled polo. At least I know he won’t drive me into the middle of nowhere… Continue reading Medellin, First Impression
BBQ + Blues
This defines Memphis for me: a good Sunday suit, BBQ smoked slow and served up fast, and weariness baked into the bones by 100 degree heat. Memphis isn’t a pretty city. Aside from the Pyramid Arena with its blindingly mirrored exterior — which formerly housed the Grizzlies basketball team but is now standing empty, Bass… Continue reading BBQ + Blues