Taipei Times: It’s noon in Taipei, 5am in Paris and midnight in New York as I take my seat in economy class. The seatbelt and no smoking lights have been switched on and the monitor on the wall shows a plane taking off. A “stewardess†comes over to take my order. A380 In-Flight Kitchen is […]
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WorldCrunch: The meal is good. It’s Korean, nine courses (various mushroom dishes, black chicken soup, traditional barbecue, rice balls for dessert) and nicely presented – but no different or more exotic than you would get at any South Korean restaurant in a large German city. The lady in Korean dress tells me that kimchi (fermented
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When I hear the word sommelier, I think of a wine professional; someone who tastes wine for a living. It seems I was too narrow in my definition. In Germany, there’s a water sommelier who can help you choose which water to go with your meal. Water from Northern Germany tastes fizzy. Spanish water tastes
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Main entry Ithaa is an undersea restaurant at the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island Resort. The restaurant is located 16 feet below the surface of the ocean. CNN has more: The six-course dinner menu often features French dishes from executive chef Nicolas Boutin and is priced at $320 a person. A lighter three-course lunch menu is
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A kati roll is an indian street-food. The Kati Roll Company first opened in a small store located in NYC’s eclectic Greenwich Village. With cash raised through her own savings and borrowed from family, Payal Saha made and served a simple 11-roll menu. Taking a risk with a new version of Indian cuisine and not
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Like Nathan Shields I like to make pancakes for my kids on Saturday mornings. While I can barely recreate my children’s first initials, my pancake design skills have nothing on this American math teacher in Saipan. Shields can make just about anything! Take a look at his website, Saipancakes, for more of his creations. Although
What if I told you that there was a restaurant in Los Angeles, California that no longer serves eggs, bacon and toast to the likes of you and me, and now only serves big and small name Hollywood actors? Would you claim discrimination? This is not that kind of story. Quality Cafe located at 1236
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Looking to spread the word about his french fry resturant, French Fry Heaven, Scott Nelowet created a mobile game app to educate the public about the store’s wide variety of french fry flavor toppings. Players match ingredients with characters like Big Tater. If you complete the game, you go on to the next character —
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WNYC has up a conversation with serial entrepreneur and creator of the Flip video camera, Jonathan Kaplan, on his next business venture: grilled cheese sandwhiches! “Grilled cheese makes people happy, and when I created the Flip I wanted to really think about a way to change the way people captured and shared video, a way
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A couple Stanford Business School grads have started a company in the Bay Area to deliver lunch to office workers. The company, Eat Club, was founded a year ago and now serves lunch to about 3,000 office workers per week from South San Francisco to northern San Jose. Their secret sauce: The company only delivers
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