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Recipe for Perfect Happiness…A Free Trip to St. Bart’s!

Recipe for Perfect Happiness…A Free Trip to St. Bart’s!

Come November you can experience St. Bart’s for Free! As many readers know, Andrew and I have spent 29 years heading to St. Barthelemy, F.W.I for our winter break.  There’s nowhere on earth like it—this brilliant little jewel of an island is France dropped into…

Direct from St Barth via Vietnam: The Banh Mi Sandwich

Direct from St Barth via Vietnam: The Banh Mi Sandwich

We’ve brought you a post featuring the Banh Mi, the signature sandwich of Vietnam, once before.  We’ve shown you how to make one with ground pork https://chewingthefat.us.com/2012/09/our-325th-post-melissa-clarks-quick.html.  But just before we left New York for our annual stay in St. Epicerie Boulud’s Banh Mi Barthelemy…

Back to Bonito in St. Barth and our take on their wonderful Peruvian Tiradito of Tuna

Bonito’s Version of Tiradito de Thon And mine… Unfortunately, mine didn’t come with this view from Bonito Rue Lubin Brin Gustavia, St. Barthelemy FWI (590)0590-279-696 www.ilovebonito.com          Silken fish coated in citrus and soy, the earthy nuttiness of sesame oil, the sweetness…

15 Things you must eat in St. Barth, FWI

VILLA ACE, HOME SWEET HOME! C’EST LA VUE! SAME WONDERFUL MINI COOPER AGAIN THIS YEAR! MARCHE ‘U’ NOW FULL OF FRESH VEGETABLES We’re back!  We’ve just concluded our 18th visit to one of our favorite places on earth, St. Barthelemy. That little 8 ½ square mile…

28 Things we will miss about St. Barth

 A      Adele 21 on the I-Pod     The wonderful orange and grapefruit smell of Anthony Logistics Sun Products for Men who donate a portion of their profits to Prostate Cancer Research and none, so far as we know, to Skin Cancer Research. Being…

Another day in Paradise…a visit to Bonito Restaurant in Gustavia, St. Barth

After a day at the beach… nothing beats a dinner at Bonito Snag a table overlooking the harbor If anything captures what makes this island truly unique, it is Bonito, a new-to-us restaurant that took over what used to be called “Mandala”.  By its former…

Greetings from St. Barthelemy, FWI

C’est laVue! The Entrance to our Villa The front of the villa  This week I thought we’d share our trip to St. Barthelemy, in the French West Indies.  This is our 16th trip here in the last 20 years so you can probably tell that…