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Here’s the Ultimate Restaurant Guide for Everywhere from Mykonos to St. Barth to Cabo San Lucas
For years, we’ve been renting our villas in St. Barth from WIMCO, without question the premiere Villa Rental Agency on our favorite island. This year, we had to skip St. Barth since we were off to Asia. Our friends at WIMCO missed our annual restaurant…
My Travels: The Philippines and a recipe for Lamb Shank Caldereta from one of their most famous Chefs, Sau del Rosario
I confess. I am starting the trip reports completely backwards. Quite simply, my amazing voyage of culinary discovery, aboard Silversea’s exquisite flagship, Silver Muse, ended in Manila. And while I will take you to Bali and to Borneo and cannot wait to share with you…
A Great Guest Post: Liana Minassian’s Foodie Guide to Los Angeles
As some of our regular readers and all of our Instagram Followers know (www.Instagram.com/montemathews), I have been on the road. I mean really on the road. In the coming weeks I have a lot to share with you. I first went to Bali where I…
Montreal Meatloaf Stroganoff adapted from Sam Sifton in The New York Times
My native province of Quebec has long been known for its gastronomy which was prized by Canadians if for no other reason than the food in the neighboring provinces was so… pedestrian, to put it kindly. Chock that up to having the French do the…
Mexican Chicken Pot Pie
As much as I love Chicken Pot Pie, I was looking to kick things up and bring some new flavors to this old family favorite. And old is an appropriate word. Pot Pies have a history going back to ancient Greece. The Greeks cooked meats…
Spaghetti and Meatballs in the Instant Pot
As some of our readers know, we recently moved out of the apartment we’d lived in for 23 years and moved down one floor to an apartment where we plan to live the next 23 years. But all the Marie Kondo-ing in the world hasn’t…
Cruise along with me on the Cruise Ship of the Year…
My friends at Travel-Wise have just published my latest article on the most anticipated new cruise ship of the year. And it’s been winning awards and passenger compliments ever since its launch in December 2018. Travel-Wise kept my photos to a minimum so I thought…
Ribollita, Tuscany’s gift to the Winter Table
Ah, Ribollita…the Tuscan soup that’s a perfect antidote to winter. Hearty and robust, it’s packed with vegetables and day-old bread making it far more a stew than a soup. Its origins are precise. Its roots are in the peasant foods of Tuscany particularly in the…
Three Chefs Takes on Cheese…PLUS A Money-Saving Offer on a Trip to Gouda Land right at Tulip Time.
I can’t imagine a world without cheese. It would be a far less delicious place. Today, I wanted to share three great recipes that you may have missed. And an offer that’s hard to refuse. The first recipe is for the “ Diva of…
Easy Duck Confit…Revisited.
It’s been almost ten years since we made this recipe and it’s still as good as it gets. One of the great challenges I face is to constantly look for new recipes, new combinations and new takes on the classics. When you think about it,…
Pear and Duck Confit Salad
The Food Police were out in force when we posted our Easy Duck Confit recipe last Friday. There were rumblings about our waistlines and heart health. So I thought share some nutrition numbers to counter the impression we are on a…
My latest article for Connoisseur Magazine has just been published. Step aboard the most eagerly anticipated ship of the year, Celebrity Edge.
I was very pleased when Connoisseur Magazine invited me to be a Luxury Travel Correspondent for their publication which has both UK and US Editions. Connoisseur is written with the luxury traveler in mind. So when I was asked to write about the newest ship…
Blueberry Maple Granola
I’ve been working on Chewing The Fat’s first book. It’s a compendium of Andrew’s masterful baking. The very last recipe was for homemade Granola. The mere thought of it brought back memories of just how good it was. It was so far superior to any…
