Alaska / Cabins / Food and Drink / USA
An Odyssey In Homer
Souzz and I were just at a wedding in Homer, Alaska, a few hundred miles south of Anchorage. Traveling to Homer from Virginia is a bit of an odyssey—9 hours …
Author: souzzchef
Alaska / Food and Drink / USA
Twice Baked Alaska
A few months back, we blogged about making a dessert called Baked Alyeska. We were inspired by a feature in the Alaska Dispatch by Suzanna Caldwell. She wrote a great …
Alaska / Food and Drink / USA
Mixing Work and Play
I’m on a work trip in Alaska at a camp for military kids that starts in a few days, but I came north a little early just for fun. Right …
Cabins / Food and Drink / Paddling / USA / West Virginia
Paddles, Pies (almost), and Parades
With a kayaking trip planned to the mountains this weekend, we decided we’d stop through Petersburg, West Virginia, to catch their 4th of July parade on the ride back home. …
Happy Campers
This past weekend I had the chance to go on an adventure with a friend that I’ve known since the 1960s. Tim and I share a hometown and a lot …
Hey Chris, can you pass me some sauce?
After Columbus landed in the Americas, he brought a lot of things back to the Continent. There was knowledge of the New World, sure, but let’s not forget wheat, potatoes, …
Politics and Prose
When I was a Junior in high school, I had Mrs. O’Neill for Government. As I remember it, my friend Bump Stevens and I spent most of our time talking …
Arte cubano
I wrote about the cuisine in Cuba in a previous entry–but I’ve heard art described as food for the soul. The art in Cuba has had a prominent place at …
Where a Cuban Sandwich is Just a Sandwich
We are having a great visit to Havana, Cuba, where Souzz had a work trip and I tagged along. While Cuba has been off limits to Americans for a long …
Alaska / Food and Drink / USA
Burning Dessert
A few years back, Souzz and I made flaming Baked Alaska on a packrafting trip in West Virginia with our good friend Sara. The trip was Sara’s Bon Voyage before …