Today, it is impossible to travel. And armchair traveling is about the best way you can know about a place and its food.
Armchair traveler. Years ago, I hated that word and told myself that there is nothing as good as being in a place, smelling and seeing and eating, meeting people.
I consider myself lucky that I have been invited to other countries, as well, to report mainly on the food. Dining and drinking experiences in Spain are too numerous to recall, but most memorable was having breakfast of fried bacalao with cerveza in a Madrid cafe.Trout was glorious in a seafood restaurant in Finland. It was my first time to taste reindeer meat in Sweden.
Among my treasured books is the series called “The Collected Traveler,” each book about one place. I have only four of the series—Paris, Central Italy, Venice, Provençe—bought in the airport bookstore, though I can’t recall which country. There are still Istanbul, Morocco, Northern Spain and Athens waiting for me.
For instance, Daniel Young’s “Café Dos and Don’ts” is totally entertaining. He thought a “Juliette Binoche look-alike seated a few chairs away is giving him the eye when she’s really perusing the plats du jour listedon the slate menu positioned above and behind his head.” So, Young’s advice: Don’t sit there.
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