Breakfast In Paris

Around mid-morning, French cookbook author Anne met us at a classic French boulangerie- a place that only uses sourdough, she explained, so their bread has less gluten and is healthier. “Us” meaning myself and three other lovely American tourists, who had each paid about $70 through Airbnb’s new experience feature for Anne to show us […]

How to improve your morning coffee

Ah, coffee. You cheer us up on the darkest and coldest of mornings. We hold our steaming mugs beneath our noses and inhale your scent. You nudge us awake after long nights out, help perk us up after a slow afternoon. We may cheat on you with green tea or yerba mate on occasion, but […]

how to stay healthy despite holiday travel and stress

Unless you have a perfect immune system, it’s pretty likely that you understand the distress of falling ill during the holidays. If you are travelling, your sleep schedule is often disrupted, you encounter strange foods, and you are exerting a lot more energy participating in holiday events- and I don’t even want to get started […]

Breakfast at The Edgewater

My grandmother and I are both early risers. The other day we met up for breakfast and were rudely reminded that the rest of the world doesn’t get up as early as we do… none of the eateries we could think of were open until 11 or 11:30. After a bit of driving, we decided […]

Discovering Redmond

Redmond, WA is not the first place Seattleites think of when they want to check out a nearby city. We’re more likely to head to Vancouver or Portland, eschewing the smaller cities in favor of places with hipster coffee shops and organic grocery stores. Around here, Remond is pretty much known for two things- Microsoft […]