Food adventures on Friday: a shor note on why I love food so much

I learn cooking and baking stuff by doing (with the kind help of recipes found all over the place). But this post has nothing to do with me baking something and it has all to do with the joy of food.


I go out for dinner a lot the last few weeks (a real luxury). Food + great people = The Good Life for me.

I could write good food, but you know what, food doesn't even have to be that great at all to make it a great memory. I have some great memories of disaster food, they're fun (most of them are).
And: food gives you a chance to travel the world on a plate. I ate Greek and Italian last week and there's a dinner-date set heading for Japanese food next week.
But it also works the other way 'round places I traveled I remember food.....

A few of my place-bound memories:
* At the foot of the montmartre in a small alley in Paris I ate the best salmon ever
* I had a winter's meal (split pea soup) at 30 degrees celcius for diner in Romania (and it tasted great!).
* my most expensive glass of coke I had in Florance, Italy.
* I first tasted wheatgrass juice in London (and renamed it: healthy green stuff).
* In Taiwan I ate crazy stuff like shark fin soup (did not knew until afterwards, I do not support this soup. Very cruel to the beautiful sharks) and chickenbutts (and that tasted great).
* A small and very Italian bakery in Rome served the most heavenly tiramisu I've ever tasted.


What's you best food-memory?

Monday Miles - Gelato at the Trevi Fountain

I love taking photos (using a humble Canon digital Ixus 80IS). Especially when travelling. Trying to capture stunning nature, a pretty building or just an atmosphere. Through this blog feature I would like to take you on a little travel. As I go through my (very long and always growing) list of places to-go and the (much shorter list) of the places I've been. 

It's been a while since we travelled some miles on monday (it was back in February to Berlin memories). But I think it was last week (or the week before that...) I watched a cooking program shot in Rome, Italy. It brought back some sweet Italian memories. I've been to the beautiful city three times. Love the food, the gelato and the beautiful language (note to self: go learn it some day!).

So, three beautiful trips to Rome. I'm very lucky. Or was it the coins I tossed in the Trevi Fountain?
Even though quite crowded, this fountain is probably my favorite place in Rome. It looks beautiful and there's some very good gelato right next to it (to the left if you're standing in front of the fountain)!

Beat that!

Photo was taken in the Summer of 2009