20 July, 2014

TerraVita 2014 Tickets Now on Sale!

Posted in : Events on July 20, 2014 by : The Gourmez

Tags: a chef's life, ashely christiensen, chapel hill, drink, north carolina, october, scott crawford, southern food, standard foods, sustainability, sustainable classroom, terravita, tickets, vivian howard

Readers, I know I’m not in North Carolina anymore (though I will be in Raleigh the weekend of 9/13–let’s get together, locals!), but I had to make sure you knew that tickets for Chapel Hill’s TerraVita went on sale today. Why? Because TerraVita is an amazing conference focused on food, drink, and ways to enjoy
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29 November, 2010

London in October 2010, Part 3: The Tower of London, London Bridge City, Soho, and Notting Hill

Posted in : Dining in London - UK, Travel Guide for London - England - UK on November 29, 2010 by : The Gourmez

Tags: 2010, alounak, armor collection, becca gomez farrell, ben farrell, crown jewels, design museum, forbidden planet, john pawson, kebobs, london, notting hill, october, pints, scott bohlinger, shad thames, soho, tower bridge, tower of london, white tower

For our final day in London, we visited my favorite part of all: the Tower of London. I seriously had no idea before this trip that the tower is actually a large fort. I really thought it was simply a tower, or maybe a pair of towers, where prisoners were held. Nope; it was much,
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22 November, 2010

London in October 2010, Part 1: Whitechapel/Angel, Westminster, Covent Garden

Comments : 2 Posted in : Dining in London - UK, Travel Guide for London - England - UK on November 22, 2010 by : The Gourmez

Tags: 2010, belgian food, belgo centraal, big ben, buckingham palace, chinatown, covent garden, curry pimp, fried brie, fried toast, green park, london, october, pakistani food, royal opera house, royal theater, st. james park, tayyabs, thistle euston, trafalgar square, wesminster, westminster abbey

As most of you know, Ben and I headed to London for vacation last month. It was fabulous! Okay, for me, it was fabulous. For Ben, who is not as interested in Western history and sights, it was a good city that would be greatly improved with better beer. Since I’m the one blogging, though,
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