Travel Tuesday ✈️ —> Nashville, TN Meat-and

Travel Tuesday ✈️ —> Nashville, TN

Meat-and-three plates like this—one protein, three “vegetables”—are found all over Tennessee, and, yes, mac-and-cheese counts as a vegetable! It’s the ultimate Southern comfort food, hearty home-cooked deliciousness transferred to the working-person’s diner, reflecting both the West African food traditions brought to the region by slaves and the country food of predominantly white farmers.

Pictured is perfectly fried catfish, fried eggplant, turnip greens, mac-and-cheese, corn bread, a pillowy dinner roll ... and you can bet some amazing slice of pie followed this meal. Aaand the sweet tea was flowing. Definitely an unbuckle-your-pants kind of meal!

I’m finding during Covid that I wish I had my own personal meat-and-three chef in my home to hand me a plate of food like this every so often. 😆 Can anyone relate??

Find this and 10 other delicious #localdishes in our Nashville food + travel guide—click the “destinations” link in our bio.

#comfortfood #nashvillefood #tennesseefood #southernfood #meatandthree #friedcatfish #macandcheeseplease #traveltuesday #traveltoeat #travelforfood #regionalfood #localfood #foodtraditions #eeeeeats #eatyourworld

I don’t order traditional salads much—it’s s

I don’t order traditional salads much—it’s something too readily made at home—but @phoeniciadiner had me at “Hudson River Valley steelhead trout.” The bacon, avocado, boiled egg, plump tomatoes, and blue cheese certainly didn’t hurt, but the trout—pink like salmon, but milder in flavor—is what called my name.

This diner is always packed—in fact, we’ve gone in years past and opted not to wait an hour-plus for a table. In the Covid era it is still slammed, but there’s an easy way to avoid the outdoor lines: Order online in advance for pickup, then eat at a nearby picnic area. Everything was ready for us in 15 minutes flat! When you’re traveling around with 4 kids, that’s everything.

Who else loves trout??

#phoeniciadiner #phoeniciany #catskills #localfood #farmtotable #regionalfood #upstatenewyork #discoverupny #visitcatskills #localtravel #eatlocal #traveltoeat #travelforfood #familytravel #supportlocalbusiness #goexplore #eatyourworld

Travel Tuesday —> Oaxaca 🇲🇽 Behold the em

Travel Tuesday —> Oaxaca 🇲🇽

Behold the empanada con flor de calabaza y quesillo! Empanadas in Oaxaca are not little pies but oval tortillas heated over a comal, then folded over your filling of choice. They resemble the size and look of what’s called a quesadilla in other parts of Mexico. This is one of the more common local fillings: stringy Oaxacan cheese + delicate squash blossoms. Fresh, simple, and beautiful in taste and appearance.

The other oh-so-Oaxacan filling we loved was mole amarillo: shredded chicken in rich, subtly spicy mole. You’d cut into it and the piping-hot, flavorful sauce came spilling out. Heaven!

Find this and 28 other Oaxacan dishes (plus food guides to Mexico City and the Yucatán coast) on our website—click the “destinations” link in our bio. Who else knows and loves this dish?

#oaxacamexico #oaxacanfood #localfood #mexicanfood #marketfood #mercadodelamerced #streetfood #regionalfood #traveltoeat #travelforfood #eeeeeats #worldfood #visitoaxaca #traditionalfood #foodculture #oaxacalotienetodo #tastetheworld #goexplore #eatyourworld

Travel Thursday —> Copenhagen 🇩🇰 So we ar

Travel Thursday —> Copenhagen 🇩🇰

So we are trying something new on Tuesdays + Thursdays, and will reach into our extensive archives to celebrate a dish from another culture in the place from which it’s found. We feature a lot of food in Queens because we live and eat here the most—and right now we are basically *only* eating here. But #eatyourworld the website was founded to celebrate local food at the global level, so we want to get back to our roots a bit, once or twice a week anyway. (Also, despite loving and embracing #localtravel at the moment, we reeeeally miss world travel!)

First up is Copenhagen, and this beautiful, very Danish slab of smoked eel with scrambled eggs and chives.
You can’t see the rye bread tucked underneath, but this is actually a locally famous smørrebrød (open-faced sandwich) combination. It's delicious: intensely smoky, fatty, and buttery, topped with a mountain of chives. Pair it with a blackberry snaps to cut the richness (and feel even more Danish!).

Explore more of Copenhagen via the “destinations” link in our bio. Who else loves pairing eggs with smoked fish?

#copenhagen #danishfood #smørrebrød #schønnemann #copenhagenfood #denmarktravel #smokedeel #featuremevisitcopenhagen #worldtravel #traveltoeat #travelforfood #eeeeeats #foodtravel #foodtourism #foodtraveler #goexplore

“Don't let [Covid-19] dominate you. Don't be afr

“Don't let [Covid-19] dominate you. Don't be afraid of it."

So said Trump last night as he arrived back to the White House still visibly sick after spending a few days getting the very best hospital care in the world, including aggressive experimental treatment, for FREE.

I was instantly transported back to March and April of this year, pictured here. Remember our city shutting down, the constant scream of ambulances, the seemingly uncontrollable viral load that swept through NYC and beyond? The virus that claimed 23K NYC lives and almost 210K in the U.S. that our so-called leaders failed to act quickly on? Yeah, don’t let any of that “dominate” you.

Has anything else dominated our lives so much since March? Because of Covid, our neighbors have died, restaurants have closed, jobs and livelihoods have been lost, schools have shut, families continue to struggle to feed themselves, inequalities have surged. We are among the lucky ones and yet Covid still dominates our lives. I’ve lost much of my work; my kids no longer attend in-person school. They haven’t seen their grandparents since February. We don’t leave the house without wearing our masks.

We are all in this together, the saying goes. Except we are not. The president, his cronies, and many of his blind supporters are not in this with the rest of us who want to #stopthespread. As long as they are doing OK, they do not care. Trump pulling off his mask in the White House, risking the health of his Secret Service and staff, really says it all: Everyone else is disposable.

It’s been four years of utter disrespect for human rights, the environment, public health, women, minorities, veterans, the law, the truth, and democracy itself—and yet his statements last night feel like the last possible straw. He is dangerous, delusional, unhinged.

So, VOTE. And if you’re as livid as I am, tell everyone you know. Join us writing letters to inactive voters via @sierraclub and sending @postcardstovoters. Make calls. Share on social. And reject the BS narrative that @joebiden is somehow in the same demoralizing-candidate camp as Trump—he is not.

Vote like your lives depend on it, because they do.

#votehimout

A delicious brunch of champions, as found at @parv

A delicious brunch of champions, as found at @parvacoffee: ham + cheese quiche, salad, salsa verde, horchata latte (didn’t know till now that was a thing!). All with a view of Northern Blvd 😍😂.

Happy weekend!

#jacksonheights #nycbrunch #nyceats #queensfood #queenseats #quiche #horchatalatte #outdoordiningnyc #eeeeeats #supportlocal #supportsmallbusiness #goexplore #eatyourworld

NYC parents getting through the first full week of

NYC parents getting through the first full week of remote instruction be like ...🍸🥃🍷🥂🍺 🤣#its5oclocksomewhere #jokingnotjoking

Pictured are two delicious cocktails—a vodka gimlet and an old-fashioned—from the new @gardenstatedistillery in Toms River, NJ, which we checked out last week while in the area. An old friend opened this small-batch distillery, but we were psyched to try it regardless for the fact that almost everything is made in and sourced from NJ: the corn, the grains, the malts. If you want a truly local cocktail, a drink born of regional soil, this is the place to be.

There are free tours + tastings, plenty of outdoor (and now some indoor) seating, and you can bring in food from nearby restaurants. But it’s all about those cocktails—especially come Friday.

Cheers to the weekend!

#drinklocal #gardenstatedistillery #jerseyshore #njborn #traveltodrink #localdrinks #localcocktails #localtravel #cheerstotheweekend #jerseyborn #tomsrivernj #supportlocal #supportsmallbusiness #goexplore #eatyourworld

It’s been a crazy, strange summer + spring, and

It’s been a crazy, strange summer + spring, and sometimes a walk in the woods is just what you need. Or an afternoon hunting for sea critters on the beach (especially if you’re among the under-10 set!). Close-to-home nature escapes have literally sustained us and kept our family (semi) sane during the pandemic, and I don’t expect that will change as we move into fall. Many people have asked me about our local adventures, so I’ve finally compiled some into a new post on our website (see link in bio + saved highlight 👆).

Each of these 10 spots are within 30-60 minutes of central Queens, spanning some parks in the borough itself, Westchester, and Long Island. (Pictured is Sands Point Preserve, Welwyn Preserve, St. Matthew’s Church Woodlands, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Rockefeller State Park Preserve, and Mercadente Beach.) I hope to add more favorite spots in Brooklyn + NJ soon, but these will get you started if you’re looking for a nearby adventure!

This is more about feeding your soul than eating your world, true, but it’s arguably just as important to feeling alive these days! And there are plenty of fun food stops to be built into such an outdoor excursion, too.

Where is your favorite nearby nature escape?

#nycnature #natureescape #queens #queensparks #nycparks #longislandny #westchesterny #walkinthewoods #natgeokids #getoutsideandexplore #nycdaytrip #getoutsidemore #feedyoursoul #nychikes #goexplore #localadventure #localtravel #eatyourworld

This locally caught flounder had the best fry on i

This locally caught flounder had the best fry on it—perfectly crispy yet light as air; not oily at all—and eating it as a sandwich on the beach before a night of bonfiring with the whole family made it only that much better. This seafood eatery, @madfishco, is open in Seaside Park Fri-Sun through Oct. 4, so if you are a #JerseyShore local, go check it out! (Broiled seafood is available too.)

We are holding onto summer as long as we possibly can, but the chilly wind today is urging us to wrap things up already 😂. Is anyone else in autumn denial this year?

#seasidepark #localfish #localfood #travellocal #supportlocal #madfishco #septemberbeachdays #endlesssummer #islandbeachstatepark #localeats #njfish #supportsmallbusiness #traveltoeat #eeeeats #goexplore #eatyourworld

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