Potato Boom Snacks

My coworkers get a monthly snack box with treats from around the world.  I *love* this, as it gives me a chance to sample a huge variety of items not normally accessible in the US, and also, to just try ... #allTheThings.  And obviously, I love snacks. This month's box was from the Ukraine, with a rare two products from the same vendor: Potato Boom.  If they were going to include two products that were nearly the same, just different flavors, these...

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Belly Artisan Ice Cream, Toronto

I love ice cream. I eat it many days a week.  You probably know this by now, if you read my blog regularly, or see my Instagram. I also enjoy interesting flavors, and trying new brands, particularly when I travel.  Thus, I bring you Belly Artisan Ice Cream, based in Canada, where I recently visited. "Belly Ice Cream is all natural and completely handcrafted with an obsessive attention to detail and an emphasis on creative, Chef driven flavours. Each flavour...

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Kid Lee, Toronto

When I travel, one thing I love is to check out establishments of the local celebrity chefs.  As I researched Toronto for my short business trip, one name did show up several times: Susur Lee.  The local celebrity chef. Susur Lee has a fairly fascinating background (from Hong Kong, worked at teh Peninsula Hotel, is wife was killed on a flight destroyed by a Soviet fighter jet ...), but his celebrity status comes from being on Top Chef: Masters, and...

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AC753, Toronto to San Francisco

Flight Details Flight: AC753 Aircraft: A321-200 Seat: 2D Departure: Toronto Pearson Airport, 4:20pm (scheduled) 5:20pm (actual) Arrival: San Francisco International, 6:49pm (scheduled) (actual) Well, this flight didn't get off to a good start. First, it was scheduled on an 737-Max, which was grounded.  So we were put onto an ancient A321.  The aircraft ... showed its age. Second, it was delayed ... once we were on board.  Not because...

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Tim Hortons, Canada

I grew up in New Hampshire.  Solidly in Dunkin' Donuts territory, where I ate my share of mediocre donuts (but liked the muffins), and was introduced to coffee more as a way to order your cream and sugar, not the other way around.  I drank way too many iced coffees loaded with sweetener and cream even in the winter, and adored Coolattas in the summer.  And then I moved away, didn't have it for years, and had my memories shattered when I tried the baked...

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