The Barking Tomato

Santorini 11 End to a perfect day in Therasia

Regurgitating 2014, Part 2: Santorini, Greece

Sunday, January 18, 2015 Carolyn R. Choate 0

I dreamt up a doozy of a plan. Leave a week early – just me and a backpack – Athens to Piraerus to Santorini, Greece, where I will alternately hike and eat my way across the breathtaking volcanic “backbone” northwest of the island in Oia. I will stay at cheap but respectable Airbnb’s so I can spend lavishly on food and wine. Of course, I will document it all with my camera. READ MORE

Regurgitating 2014, Part 1: Lyon, France

Thursday, January 1, 2015 Carolyn R. Choate 0

Foodie Carolyn Choate recalls a year of epic food adventures: Part 1, Lyon, France. READ MORE

Lunch with Chuck: The Art of the Meal

Friday, December 19, 2014 Carolyn R. Choate 0

“It’s very challenging and I mean, I feel sorry, there’s very many chefs I’ve run into who want to open their own restaurant but have no financial means and it’s not like the old days where you can present an idea to your local banker and he’ll lend you a couple hundred thousand dollars to start a restaurant or business.” – Chuck Rolecek READ MORE

To food, family and ghosts of my Christmas past

Friday, December 12, 2014 Carolyn R. Choate 1

“And just like that, I heard the deep purr of his Chevrolet Impala or his Malibu or his red Dodge Charger in the driveway and the “beep, beep” of the horn signaling me to jump in for the “funest” ride of the year. Seat belts? Only librarians and old men wore seat belts.” READ MORE

Regurgitating 2014, Part 2: Santorini, Greece

Regurgitating 2014, Part 1: Lyon, France

Lunch with Chuck: The Art of the Meal

To food, family and ghosts of my Christmas past

You are what you read: 3 great books for foodies

Ice Cream for Breakfast!

Thanksgiving and my Gobble Gobble Snobbery

Krupnik: A Honey of a Liqueur