The Amazing French Cuisine | Bleu Bohème * Irvine Hospitality * Ken Irvine * Restaurants Kensington The French cuisine you will have the chance to taste at the Blue Boheme is one of the most spectacular in the world. It consists of a series of amazing cooking traditions and special food preparation practices originating in France. The European country is …
Vibrant Veggie Soups for Spring
“You can’t eat this soup standing up, your knees buckle.” – Jerry, in “The Soup Nazi” “The guy who runs the place is a little temperamental, especially about the ordering procedure. He’s secretly referred to as the Soup Nazi.” “Why? What happens if you don’t order right?”“He yells and you don’t get your soup.” – Jerry and Elaine, in …
Dining in Mexico in 1909
By William English Carson If a stranger is content to embark on a course of Mexican food and can stomach the highly seasoned dishes, filled with chilis and red peppers, he can get satisfactory meals at the Mexican restaurants, for some of the things which are served are piquant and excellent. But he must beware, for the dishes have a nomenclature …
The Hacienda That Chiles Built, c. 1815
The owner of this famous hacienda is a Creole, named Don Juan de Moncada. From the hacienda he takes the title of Marques. Previous to the revolution, he was considered among the richest of the landed proprietaries of Mexico, and in the year 1810 actually possessed in his own mansion six millions of dollars. The rent he derived from his …
A Market in Trinidad, 1887
By William Agnew Patton In the midst of this cooly district there is an open space, an acre or two in extent, densely shaded by a very ancient, and far-spreading banyan-tree, under the branches of which the cooly people hold their market. It would be impossible to imagine a scene more unlike any that I had ever beheld in all …