Photo Friday: Gandhi in San Francisco

San Francisco; February 2010 This is a statue of Indian statesman Mahatma Gandhi behind the San Francisco Ferry Building. From this angle it looks like he is gazing out at the reflected sunset and full moon rising over the Bay Bridge. I took this with my new digital SLR and I’m particularly pleased with the [...]

Travel and expat blogs make finals for 2010 Bloggies

Travel blogs have made a fantastic showing in the finals of this year’s 2010 Weblog Awards, also known as the Bloggies. Food blogs have been popular in the Bloggies for some time and remain so, but the profile of travel blogging has really leapt ahead in the last couple of years. The Bloggies is one [...]

Food fashion: Is ice cream the new cup cakes?

Suddenly everyone is lining up for a scoop of the cold stuff. Food is prone to fashion. Like the cup cake craze that we’ve had to endure ever since Sarah Jessica Parker ate one on Sex and the City once. (Long-standing readers of this blog will know that I think cup cakes are mostly over-hyped [...]

Best of the Web – Gooseberry Fool: Foodie links for 10 August

Food and travel Vegetarian travel. Top 10 countries to be vegetarian in, according to Expatify. Maltese delicacy. Nanette, the self-styled Ms Gourmet of Gourmet Worrier, writes about ġbejniet – individual cheeselettes formed in little plastic baskets made from fresh goat or sheep milk. The picture of her little girl with a bag of ġbejniet is [...]

Carnival of Cities: From marbles in Kansas City to snow in London

A blog carnival of posts about cities. I’m delighted to be hosting the Carnival of Cities on behalf of Sheila Scarborough of Family Travel Logue and I’m sorry for the delay in publication. We’ve had a great range of blog posts this week about cities and towns, mainly in the USA, but also Mexico, all [...]

Carnival of Cities: From Thai in Vermont to Chai in Dubai

I’m pleased to be hosting the Carnival of Cities on The Gooseberry Fool for the first time. Since this is a food blog, I was especially keen for posts with a culinary connection and I wasn’t disappointed. I hope you enjoy this week’s menu. * Gray at SoloFriendly on great Thai restaurants in her hometown [...]

Leiths Week 3: Currying favour with a curry

It was Indian and Sri Lankan this week at Leiths but before I tantalise your tastebuds with descriptions of the yummy food, please permit me a short rant. If you don’t live in London, you might want to skip the next paragraph. Leiths used to be fairly centrally located in Kensington. Unfortunately they needed bigger [...]