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Getaway to the Biloxi Coast

Dec 16, 2024 | epicurean-traveler.com | Jan Ross

It's cool and pleasant here in Lexington, Kentucky and if we hadn't just spent several days on the beautiful coast of Mississippi we would have enjoyed the lovely weather. But my sister in law and I have just returned from our first visit to the wonderful white sandy beaches and the gorgeous green and blue water on the coast of lovely Mississippi. We were in the mood to spend some time a a lovely beach town so we contacted the friendly folks at the # Coastal Mississippi office.
TREVISO'S RADICCHIO ROSSO: THE VENETO'S WINTER VEGETABLE

Dec 8, 2024 | epicurean-traveler.com | Lucy Gordan

TREVISO'S RADICCHIO ROSSO: THE VENETO'S WINTER VEGETABLETreviso isn't a destination on a traveler's first itinerary to Italy, but only a half-hour train ride from La Serenissima it's definitely worth a day-trip especially enjoyable for medievalists, poets, and foodies. Originally named "Tarvisium, Treviso became a municipium in 89 BC after the Romans added Cisalpine Gaul to their dominions, but, revered in verse by Dante and Petrarch, its heyday and significant monuments date to the Middle Ages.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AT NEW YORK'S MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Dec 7, 2024 | epicurean-traveler.com | Lucy Gordan

Traditionally every holiday season the Morgan Library displays Charles Dickens's only original manuscript of his novella A Christmas Carol. In drastic financial straits Dickens wrote the five "staves" or chapters of this iconic tale over six weeks at the end of 1843. That he was in a hurry to finish is clear from the 66-page manuscript's many revisions: detailed emendations, deletions, and insertions, and his scrawling handwriting.
PLANNING A PILGRIMAGE TO ITALY DURING 2025's HOLY YEAR

Oct 18, 2024 | epicurean-traveler.com | Lucy Gordan

In 1300 Pope Boniface VIII proclaimed the first ordinary Jubilee or Holy Year, with the Papal Bull, "Antiquorum Habet Fida Relatio." Since then, they have taken place either every 50 or every 25 years. 2025's Holy Year is the 27th. It will begin on Christmas Eve 2024 and last through Epiphany or January 6, 2026. If you still need to organize your pilgrimage to Rome, the Jubilee's principal venue, and to other religiously significant places elsewhere in Italy, here are three unbeatable websites.
Via Appia Antica: Directions, Sights, and Gastronomy

Sep 2, 2024 | epicurean-traveler.com | Lucy Gordan

THE APPIAN WAY: DIRECTIONS, SIGHTS, and GASTRONOMYOn July 31 UNESCO proclaimed the Via Appia or Appian Way Italy's 60th World Heritage Site.
JEWISH ROME: EUROPE'S OLDEST COMMUNITY

Jul 6, 2024 | epicurean-traveler.com | Lucy Gordan

Today, Rome's Jewish population counts some 15,000 people and a dozen Orthodox synagogues. The liturgy of the largest and ornate Il Tempio Maggiore follows the Orthodox Italki rite as practiced by Italian Jews since early Roman times. In fact, Jews have lived in Rome for more than 2,000 years, making it the oldest Jewish community in Europe.
VISIT VENICE, BUT YOU MAY NEED TO REGISTER FIRST

Apr 18, 2024 | epicurean-traveler.com | Lucy Gordan

On March 19 Sergio Mattarella, The President of Italy, inaugurated the new headquarters of the Foreign Press Association in what had been the Roman residence of former Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi. Some three weeks later the key speaker at the Foreign Press Association's first official press conference in its new home was Luigi Brugnaro, the Mayor of Venice. He came to explain to the world the new rules for tourists visiting La Serenissima.
The Hope Farm: Setting the Bar High

Mar 12, 2024 | epicurean-traveler.com | Kurt Jacobson

It's not often that I find a restaurant so inspiring that I want to publish a feature article about it. On my most recent trip to visit my 104 year old Aunt Jule in Fairhope, I had the pleasure of exploring The Hope Farm. It was pure luck that I found this James Beard nominated restaurant who is in the running for best beverage program. I was reading an email from the James Beard Foundation and spotted The Hope Farm in Fairhope.
WHEN IN ROME, WHERE TO EAT LIKE A ROMAN

Mar 3, 2024 | epicurean-traveler.com | Lucy Gordan

From the ancient Romans we've inherited the basis for modern civil law and city planning, a standard coinage, a system of weights and measures, plumbing, aqueducts, bridges, ...and delicious food, represented best by pasta especially spaghetti alla carbonara or cacio peppe, gnocchi, saltimbocca, innards (the apex of authentic Roman cuisine), stuffed zucchini flowers, supplì (fried rice balls stuffed with mozzarella), pecorino or sheep cheese, puntarelle, and artichokes.
Getaway to Fabulous Virginia Beach

Oct 23, 2023 | epicurean-traveler.com | Jan Ross

My sister in law and I entered our wonderful hotel room at the luxurious Hyatt Virginia Beac h and walked over to the beach view from the window. The curtain were closed so we opened them and our mouths literally dropped open at the fabulous view. We knew our room was on the beach but we had no idea we would be so close to the fabulous beach and the beautiful water. The hotel was literally just a few feet from the lovely and wonderful beach.