If you drive Highway 101 up the Oregon coast right now, you might notice an unusual fall landscape--shrubby and angular, brick red fields. This is where cranberries come from! These cranberry fields are also called a cranberry bog -- a recessed rectangular pit, filled with a dense mat of cranberry bushes. The berries grow on runners along the ground, so to harvest the fruit, ...
Eating My Way Through Nishiki Market, Kyoto
One of my favorite things to do in a new city is to visit local food markets and Nishiki Market in Kyoto, Japan was top of my Kyoto travel wish list. Food is serious business in Japan; traditional Japanese cooking, or washoku, is so important to the culture that it was recently placed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The City of Kyoto considers their local cuisine among the ...
Learning How to Make Sourdough Bread
Alternative title: How I Convinced the Wife to Let "My Mother" Come Live With Us. Since I started thinking about bread a few months ago, I’ve read about a thousand blog posts and articles that take the mother joke way too far. Obviously, when I say mother, I'm talking about my sourdough starter culture (often called a "mother"), not my actual mother. So, I promise to spare you ...
A Visit to Santa Cruz Island & Channel Islands National Park
This is a guest post by Dianne Sivulka. We love visiting National Parks and try to visit a few each year. California is fortunate to have nine National Parks, more than any other state. Visitors to California often choose Yosemite or the Redwoods, but fewer people venture out to the Channel Islands. Perhaps that’s because of its location, a group of islands off the Southern California coast, ...
Road Trip Safety Tips: 5 Things to Do Before You Leave
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company regarding its In The Nation post. All opinions are 100% mine. I've been thinking about cars and car safety a lot lately. A few months ago, our 16-year old, 201,000 mile Toyota Camry failed California's required emissions test. It wasn't really a surprise, I knew big things (including the pollution-regulating ...
A Hungarian Food Tour in Budapest
While I could have spent our entire trip to Budapest in their hot spring baths, I'm glad that I had to come up out of the water long enough to eat. While Hungarian food is not very well known outside of the country, minus goulash (gulyás), I found there was a lot more to know and love about Hungarian cuisine. One of the best things we did on our trip was to book a culinary walking tour with ...
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