Southern Cook Carlye Jane Dougherty Talks Cookbooks and Culinary Arts

Mary Gilbert Food and Wine, History, Interviews, Shops, United States September 9, 2022Carlye Jane Dougherty, Charleston, Charleston Academy of Domestic Pursuits, Cookbooks, Cooking, Culinary Arts, Heirloom Book Company, Kiawah Island, Literature of Food, South Carolina, Southern chefs, Suzanne Pollak, The I Hate to Cook Book, Travel, Travel writer 2 Comments

Carlye Jane Dougherty and I are casually seated next to an exposed red brick fireplace in her charming home in historic downtown Charleston, SC. We’re sipping a perfectly chilled white wine, which helps soften the balmy afternoon air wafting inRead more

London’s Historic Borough Market Beckons Food Lovers

Mary Gilbert Europe, Food and Wine, Shops January 18, 2017Borough Market, Cartwright Brothers, Christmas in London, Christmas lights in London, Kappacasein Dairy, London, McLaren's Christmas pudding, Northfield Farm, The Bath Soft Cheese Company 0 Comment

Bundled against London’s late December chill, the woman staffing Kappacasein’s cheese stall at the Stoney Street entrance to Borough Market, London’s oldest food market, assembles our order of two toasted cheese sandwiches. For each, she begins with two thin, rectangular-shapedRead more

Day Tripping to Bodega Head on the Sonoma Coast

Mary Gilbert Food and Wine, Shops, United States August 1, 2016Bodega Bay, Bodega Head, Bodega Highway, Freestone Artisan Cheese, Gourmet au Bay, Howard Station Cafe, Rocker Oysterfeller's, Sonoma County, The Birds, Wild Flour Bread 6 Comments

Sixty-eight. Sixty-seven. Sixty-six. The countdown is under way as Bill and I drive the winding, two-lane Bodega Highway toward Bodega Head on the Sonoma Coast of California. Bill is at the wheel. He steals frequent glances at the thermometer onRead more

Just Ducky at the Outer Banks

Mary Gilbert Hotels and Rentals, Shops, United States May 30, 2014Beach Vacation, Corolla, Currituck Beach Lighthouse, Currituck Sound, Duck, Duck Donuts, Duck Duck Art, Duck Pizza Company, Highway 12, Jockey's Ridge, Kitty Hawk Kites, Memorial Day, Nags Head, NC, North Carolina, Outer Banks, Summer Solstice, The Blue Point, The Drake at Founders Ridge, The Duck Deli, The Sweet Duck, Travel, Travel blog, Travel writing 4 Comments

The first unwritten rule of summer is that the season kicks off on Memorial Day, not on the summer solstice in June. The second unwritten rule is that one of the best places to observe the first unwritten rule is the beach.Read more

On the Map with The Map Shop

Mary Gilbert Shops, United States March 17, 2014Atlas, Charlotte, FedEx, First responder, Flag, Globe, Google maps, Mac, Map, Mapquest, NOAA, North Carolina, Patrice Northrup, PC, Retail, Smartphone, Ted Northrup, The Map Guy, The Map Shop, Travel, Travel blog, Travel necessities, Travel writing, UPS 6 Comments

If you think the digital age has caused printed maps and charts and those colorful spinning globes so identified with grade school classrooms to be relegated to ancient relics of an earlier time, think again. The ubiquity of smartphones andRead more

To Market, To Market

Mary Gilbert Food and Wine, Shops, United States July 28, 2013Acme Bread Company, America's Cup, Berkeley, Cowgirl Creamery, Della Fattoria, Embarcadero, Farmers Market, Ferry Terminal, Happy Quail Farms, Hog Island Oyster Company, Larkspur, Petaluma, San Francisco Bay, Travel, Travel blog, Travel writing 2 Comments

Posted from Glen Ellen, CA When it’s Saturday morning in San Francisco, the place to be is the farmers market at the Ferry Terminal at the Embarcadero. Within the Ferry Building itself is the Marketplace, an enticing array of largeRead more