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It’s not impossible that by the end of writing this guide for a weekend in Austin I’ll be crying tears of nostalgia, but I am going to write it all the same. You see, Austin used to be my home…
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“Overwhelmed” should be defined in the dictionary as the feeling you get when trying to choose the best dining options on your first visit to New York. Even if you google “the absolute best most delicious critically acclaimed must-try foods…
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My blog’s birthday is impossible to forget because it coincides with Thanksgiving. My very first blog post — one of the few I didn’t correct through the years to be able to look back and gasp in disbelief at my…
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When it comes to food, I am a creature of habit. This defies logic because as a food blogger I am supposed to be adventurous, seek out the most trashy looking hole-in-the-wall types of restaurants, and try fried insects on…
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I am no novice to packing up my whole life and leaving the comfortable and familiar only to create a home in a land I’ve never visited before. My first move was to Sri Lanka. I lived there for a year…
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I can’t be the only person who finds food, travel, art and books to be the perfect combination for a gift and, frankly, life in general. Four of the above are essentials of my happy existence and the removal of…
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How on Earth I never watched The Sound of Music prior to visiting Salzburg I cannot explain, but a fact is a fact. The American classic escaped me — save for memes of Julie Andrews dancing in the meadow with…
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If you are not Bavarian and haven’t done Oktoberfest since childhood on an annual basis, I suggest you take some time to plan your first visit to the largest beer festival in the world that attracts over seven million people…
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Technically, I moved to Germany three days before Oktoberfest, but that would make for an unnecessarily long and overall less cool title. Still, pretty good timing, especially considering that Oktoberfest has never been on my bucket list. First of all,…
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You’d think when choosing good mayonnaise one has to pay attention to ingredient list, consistency, and color, but for all I care good mayo has to have only one important characteristic and that is — be packed in a blue…
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