We describe our experiences in restaurants or travel. Our reports are usually about one meal. We do not claim to be “reviewing” a restaurant, but we hope that our blogposts will be interesting and helpful to diners when added to the other reports now available on the web.
Linda at Geranium in Copenhagen.
We do not claim anonymity as most guidebook and newspaper restaurant reviewers do, but we are also not like some bloggers who identify themselves in advance and ask the house to do its best. We have no quarrel with either approach, but they are not our style. We usually just order the regular tasting menu and see what happens. We also know that many of our regular readers, family and friends among them, just like to read what we are up to and to enjoy the photos without even thinking of going to these restaurants. We do not limit our reports to the best and most successful meals. Disappointment is a part of life and we see no point in hiding it. Perhaps some criticism will be beneficial in one way or another. Some of the most interesting reports are from when we were very irritated.
At the top of the small column on the right of this page, and of all our posts, you will see a listing of our recent reports. You can click on the title of any of these to see the full post. Just below the Recent Posts is a dropdown “Cities and Regions” Category list. It will show you the wide variety of places we have been. For example, in 2009 we were in Rome, Mexico, Charleston SC, Istanbul, Burgundy, Paris, Provence and Piemonte, in addition to our two homes in New York City and on the Côte d’Azur. You can click on any place name and see the first few lines of all the posts from that place. You can then click to get the full post of those you find of interest. (Clicking on the “filed in” category at the bottom of each post does not produce the same result; it gives you all WordPress posts with that category or tag; there is a reason for that, but it is too complicated to explain here.)
Michael at Hamdi in Istanbul.
We hope you will follow our adventures in 2010. Our blog has an RSS feed for those who use a blogreader:
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Michael & Linda
The Wandering Epicures is one of two successor blogs to CountryEpicure. Before August 2008 posts were filed both by us and by our friends Gary and Varian. (For technical reasons beyond my control their old posts are now shown as having been posted by me, but names are in the text.) Now each couple has its own blog. To see their successor blog, Country Epicure, click here.
