Inspiring Travel Writing About Food: Page 15 of 33

"750 miles north of Tahiti are the Marquesas Islands, the archipelago most distant from any continent..."

"When the Ottoman Empire collapsed in 1923, the Turks lost Mocha and suddenly coffee was an expensive import. Bereft of the traditional high-octane stimulant, Turks turned to tea..."

"Charles Dickens was struck by the Jekyll-and-Hyde nature of Genoa when he passed through in 1844: 'it abounds in the strangest contrasts: things that are picturesque, ugly, mean, magnificent, delightful and offensive"

"Galway, Ireland, Oyster Festival, third weekend in September, for the craic. Join the Irish in a four-day thrash of seafood consumption, Guinness swigging and general revelry, with an oyster-opening competition down on the quays as a good excuse for..."