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Great Places to Eat • Great Places to Stay • Book, Film & Web Reviews
Let's face it, at realfoodtraveler we are not only foodies, we're cultural omnivores.
Here we review great places to eat and stay, as well as food-and travel-related movies, books, and more.
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750 Best Appetizers: From Dips & Salads to Spreads & Shooters
750 Best Appetizers: From Dips & Salads to Spreads & Shooters is an exhaustive and delicious exploration of appetizers/small plates.
The Arabian Nights Cookbook: Deliciously Romantic
Habeeb Salloum, who specializes in Arab food and culture, has captured the Arabian food revolution in his new cookbook, The Arabian Nights Cookbook: From Lamb Kebabs to Baba Ghanouj, Delicious Homestyle Arabian Cooking.
Bake Something Great: 400 Bars, Squares, & Cookies
Bake Something Great by Jill Snider is packed with 400 innovative and interesting recipes for bars, squares, and cookies.
Back to Basics at RedCan Gourmet, Tofino, British Columbia
Sometimes you just need to get back to the basics – honest food, local ingredients, and a community of good friends. One of the restaurants we visited on Vancouver Island that illustrates this is RedCan Gourmet.
Ristorante al Castello, Italy: A Creative Taste of Northern Italy
Set in an immense 13th century castle, Grinzane Cavour, Ristorante al Castello is a culinary gem about five miles south of Alba, in the Piedmont wine country of northern Italy.
Real Good Eats: Portland, Maine
Portland, Maine has more than 300 restaurants. Check out some of the city’s best “hidden” eateries.
Inside the Jewish Bakery: Delicious Traditions
With their book, Inside the Jewish Bakery: Recipes and Memories from the Golden Age of Jewish Baking, longtime Jewish bakers and authors Stanley Ginsberg and Norman Berg are trying to restore a nearly lost tradition of Jewish baking.
500 400-Calorie Recipes: Making Skinny Taste Good
500 400-Calorie Recipes is appealing – eat your favorite foods, but make them less calorie dense.
Mahle House, Vancouver Island: A Tradition of Deliciousness
Since 1983, customers have been flocking to Mahle House in the little country suburb of Cedar on Canada’s Vancouver Island.
Frugavore: How to Grow Organic, Buy Local, Waste Nothing, and Eat Well
Nutritionist Arabella Forge is on a mission: to help people eat better and more healthfully and not break the bank. Her book is a well-written, how-to manual about how you can become a frugavore too.
Rose Petal Jam: Recipes and Stories from a Summer in Poland
In an era of cheaply-made, print-them-quick books, Tabula Book’s beautiful, lushly-produced book, Rose Petal Jam: Recipes and Stories from a Summer in Poland, is a breath of fresh air and proof that the publishing industry hasn’t forgotten how to create artful books.
Omni Parker House, Boston, MA: History and Luxury
The Omni Parker House Hotel, one of Boston’s iconic landmarks offering gracious hospitality for more than 150 years, is just about as centrally located as you can get.
