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Vancouver, Canada: A visit to the land of bubble tea and dim sum
Chinese Wives Cakes in Richmond, BC Although we’re on the Pacific Northwest coast, the sights, sounds, and smells of Richmond, British Columbia make us feel like we’ve taken a trip to the Orient. We hop off the shiny, driverless, Metro Vancouver SkyTrain at the Lansdowne Station, a legacy of the 2010 Olympics in this city…
Chile 101: 3 ports of call provide an education on Chilean fare
Before embarking on a 17-day cruise to South America, I knew very little about Chilean food. Tasting my way through three Chilean ports changed that. Chilean food isn’t particularly bold. Rather, it’s characterized by its no-nonsense simplicity that emphasizes ocean-fresh fish and shellfish and features abundant farm-fresh fruits and vegetables. Dishes and menus are built…
Penélope’s kitchen: A lesson in the history and culture of Peru
We are sitting in the dining room of a spacious, sunlit, modern apartment located only a few hundred steps from a high cliff overlooking the Pacific. Gazing through the floor-to-ceiling windows at palm trees and waves meeting the shore, it would be easy to mistake Barranco, a middle-class district in the southern part of Lima,…
Traveling with multiple cameras, we try not to miss any what-once-were Kodak moments. My husband and travel companion, Jerry, took most of the photos on the site using a 
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