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Not Just Food
While WorldBite is the place for my food musings – and my husband’s photographs — I also write about a lot of other subjects. Most of these involve travel. If you’re curious to read about our adventures in Italy, Spain, Portugal and … Continue reading
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The Siren’s Song of Portuguese Bread
By Barbara Radcliffe Rogers Photos © Stillman Rogers I can’t walk past a bakery in Portugal without stopping to inhale the heady aromas of fresh bread. And quite often I’ll walk away with one of the firm crusty loaves under … Continue reading
The Pastries of Sintra, Portugal
By Barbara Radcliffe Rogers Photos by Stillman Rogers Sweet pastries are beloved all over Portugal, and towns across the country have their own traditional sweets, most of them a legacy of the great convents that once thrived here. Some are … Continue reading
Posted in Portugal Bites, Portugal Bites
Tagged Casa Piriquita, Convent pastries, Lisbon, Portugal, queijada de Sintra, Queijadas da Sapa, Sintra
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Go to Quebec’s Eastern Townships for the Food
By Stillman Rogers Photos © Stillman Rogers Culinary adventures await travelers who drive north of Vermont into Quebec’s eastern Townships. Rolling farmland and the warming effect of the region’s many lakes provide the perfect conditions for vineyards, fruit orchards and … Continue reading
Leipziger Lerchen – The Recipe
It wasn’t quite fair, I admit, to describe the delicious little tartlets so beloved in Leipzig and tell their story without including the recipe. Making them is not difficult: they are simply shells of tart pastry filled with almond merengue … Continue reading
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Leipziger Lerchen — a Delicious Story
Leipziger Lerchen (Photo Copyright Stillman Rogers) Leipzig’s signature pastry is the Leipziger Lerche, Leipzig Lark. The name is more than a mere flight of fancy. Since Medieval times – and probably before that – songbirds and especially larks were a … Continue reading
Posted in Germany Bites, Traditional Bites
Tagged almond tarts, cafes, food history, Germany, larks, Leipzig, Saxony
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Christmas Markets in Germany’s Black Forest
You could drop a cookie on a map of Germany and be pretty sure that wherever the crumbs fell there would be a town with a Christmas market. But nowhere is there a more varied and interesting group than in … Continue reading
Munching through Stuttgart’s Christmas Market
‘Tis the season! Christmas markets have opened throughout Germany, each one filled with cabins piled high with spicy gingerbread, fruit-filled loaves, crunchy nut cookies, rock-hard springerli for dunking, glistening candied fruits, glazed nuts, sugar-dusted doughnuts, buttery shortbreads, and steaming kettles … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas Bites, Germany Bites
Tagged Black Forest, Christmas markets, Germany, gingerbread, hot mulled wine, roasted chestnuts, Stuttgart
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Sampling the Foods of Tenerife
Padrones are the Russian roulette of Spanish cuisine. Sweet, intensely flavored, sautéed quickly and enlivened with crystals of sea salt, they spark the appetite and go down well with a glass of Rioja. Most of them. But one or two … Continue reading
Posted in Spain, Traditional Bites, Uncategorized
Tagged food heritage, food trends, Foods dining Tenerife, hot green peppers, local restaurants, mojos red peppers, papas arrugadas, pimientos padron, resort restaurants, salt boiled potatoes, Spain, Spain’s Canary Islands, Spanish food, Tenerife, Traditional Spanish Foods, typical Canarian cuisine, vineyards
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