Will Travel, Around the Web, For Food

April 29 2012 , Written by thediversetraveller Published on #dining out, #eat your way around the world, #eating out, #foodie website, #Global Food Etiquette, #Recommendations & Rants (tips, links and reviews), #restaurants, #travel and food, #travel kitchen, #Travel Kitchen (recipes and food stories from around the world), #writing about food

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Tapas - easy to prepare. Source: RealSimple.com

One of the benefits of travelling is the opportunity is the opportunity to try new experiences, especially when it comes to food. If you are wondering where to start, here are eight foodie articles, from around the web, to wet your appetitte, and best of all you can sample without leaving home.

1. Host a Casual Tapas Party | Real Simple

Bring a little of Spain in to your home for an inexpensive, Spanish-inspired gathering. Tapas, small Spanish dishes are easy to prepare and very affordable.

2. Angela Hartnett's Creole kitchen | The Observer

When MasterChef put Mauritius on the foodie map, Michelin-starred chef Angela Hartnett decided to investigate. Lucy Cavendish went along for a taster.

3. Singapore: Eat your way around Asia – on one island | The Independent
It's 10pm on a steamy Singapore evening and I have a date with a chef. I'm early, so I perch on a bar stool in her slick Holland Village establishment and wait. Given the name of the venue – the 2am Dessert Bar – it's no surprise that the bank of deep leather sofas and elegant communal dining tables have yet to be filled. A handful of poised patrons have arranged colt-like limbs over the immaculate white upholstery; nothing here looks like it's ever seen, far less
indulged in, a dessert. But this isn't a steamed pudding kind of place.

4. Top 10 vegetarian restaurants: squash player James Willstrop |
Telegraph
After 10 years on tour, the world No 1 squash player James Willstrop reveals his favourite vegetarian haunts.

5. Dining Out at Ethnic Supermarkets in Los Angeles | NYTimes.com
Supermarkets provide an insight into local life, serving as a collective community cupboard -- and none more so than the ethnic markets of Los Angeles.

6. Site helps users choose restaurants based on atmosphere | Springwise
Tourists already have a variety of options when trying to work out what to do based on their mood. In the US, UK and Canada the Feel London site, groups activities by participant mood — energetic, sophisticated, hungover — is one such example. Taking a similar concept and applying it to restaurants, Hoppit is the first site to provide a dining-out search engine which filters its results based on the ambiance of venues.

7. Travelers prefer dining at airports instead of on the plane | Travel Daily News
While the airlines may not be making money on food service, airport restaurants are, according to a survey conducted by GO Airport Express, a Chicago-based ground transportation provider.

8. Global Food Etiquette You Might Not Be Aware Of
The next time you’re gallivanting around the globe and sampling the world’s culinary delights, you may want to exercise caution before you take a bite.

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