Places
Want a glimpse of the world in bite-sized pieces? We’ll tempt you to pack your bags and hit the road.
Scramble Crossing
You've seen it in millions of films (Lost in Translation, The Fast and Furious, etc.): that crazy intersection jammed with people in Tokyo.
A Loire Valley Chateau
What do you do for a significant wedding anniversity? Rent a French chateau on a lake in the Loire Valley with 32 bedrooms and invite 60 or so of your best friends, of course.
Gaggan 1.0
One sunny and sticky afternoon, we arrived at a lovely white mansion on a back street in Bangkok to have lunch.
Tiny Tokyo Food Trucks
Like San Francisco and New York City, food trucks are big in Tokyo. Well not exactly big but tiny in fact.
House of Red Pearl
I’m a big fan of Jean-Georges. We’ve been to many of his restaurants in New York; they are all unique, and the food never lets you down.
Foraging My Way Through Noma
Noma is a three-Michelin-star restaurant run by chef René Redzepi, and co-founded by Claus Meyer, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Terracotta Warriors
It’s a schlep to get to X’ian China and the day we were there, the air was so bad that our eyes were burning.
Chai Phraya River, Bangkok
We’ve all been in traffic jams before, right? But there are American traffic jams like LA and then there are epic traffic jams like Bangkok.
Le Bernardin
All those years we lived in New York City we never got around to eating at Le Bernardin, the legendary three-star Michelin restaurant by Eric Ripert which opened in 1986.
Arzak, San Sebastian
Years ago, I spent a week in San Sebastian to attend a Spanish language immersion class.
Bac Ha Market
Bac Ha is located 200 miles from Hanoi or 65 miles from Sapa. It is the 'capital' of the Hmong Hoa (Flower Hmong), one of Vietnam’s most vibrant ethnic groups.
425 Park Avenue
Of course there’s no sign for 425 Park Avenue, the newest Jean-Gorges Restaurant in New York. I poke around the massive front entrance to this glass and steel office building in the heart of the city