I just came from Ft. Lauderdale to see friends who have arrived from France. The annual Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show opens next week and one of the highlights for the interior crew is the ...
Having left France a month ago, I found myself back in Florida, renting an apartment and looking for work. The original plan was I should have been mid Atlantic ocean now cooking for a crew ...
I wonder what made me enter that place… I was walking around the web of streets in the old town of Nice (Vieux Nice), and had no plans to eat lunch yet… I was just stopping by and taking ...
Yesterday as we went to St Laurent du Var for crew dinner, I was almost choked with my emotions. I am actually leaving again… the thought of leaving this crew just make my heart ache. ...
With the summer fading away, I made the last lunch for the family today. One of the kids left for London while the rest of the family are leaving on Friday. This means too, I leave France ...
The day we arrived in Lipari, one of the seven of the Aeolian islands in north west Sicily, the chef went shopping with out me. Oh sob, but I asked him he better come back with a pastry with ...
I first discovered this place in 1998 when I was based in Golfe Juan, thats just a train stop before Cannes, where all the glamour and glitter is. Few boats down from ours was with Greek ...
I will never forget this place, the very first time I was in Antibes array of shelled food caught my eyes. But that time I could not eat anything with shells but instead I had the most ...
I took him to the Greek restaurant, the Greek Islands in Ft Lauderdale. When selection of the dessert came we had baklava and rizogalo ( rice pudding). He loves it.. then it dawned to me I ...
I have been meaning to post this story five years back, yes as my diary and my file says April 29, 2005. But I never had the chance to do it. But it does not mean its 5 years ago I have no ...
Growing up in the Philippines, I could never understand my mother’s excitement when she was given aubergines and I would find her grilling them to burn the skin , then see her either ...
Coming back home means endless wandering around my area. Having lived in the US on and off for the past year, Athens seems to be a world apart from Ft. Lauderdale, West Palm Beach where I ...