Let me tell you something about the way I plan vacations: I don’t start with flights or hotels. I start with food. Specifically, I open a browser tab, type “where can I eat something that will rearrange my entire sense of reality,” and work backward from there. If you’re the same kind of person — … Read more
Let me be honest with you: I have absolutely planned international flights around a food event. Not a Michelin-starred restaurant, not a cooking class — a festival where strangers hand you things on sticks and the wine costs four euros. August in Europe is when this kind of glorious chaos peaks, and if you haven’t … Read more
Let me tell you something about myself: I have booked flights to cities I’d never heard of based entirely on a single dish someone described to me at a dinner party. I have rearranged entire itineraries, missed museums, and cheerfully skipped UNESCO sites because a market vendor waved me over with a spoon. Food is, … Read more
Let me tell you something about myself: I have absolutely rerouted a flight layover to eat one specific dish in one specific city. I have also — and I’m not proud of this — built a three-week itinerary entirely around the question “what food festival is happening where, and when?” July is the month where … Read more
Let me be honest with you: I have absolutely planned an entire international itinerary around a bowl of chowder. Not slightly adjusted — fully, unapologetically planned. If you’re the kind of traveler who opens Google Maps and immediately searches for the nearest harbor restaurant before even checking into your hotel, you are my people. And … Read more
Let me tell you something about myself that will surprise exactly no one who knows me: I have booked flights around restaurant reservations, planned road trips based on regional cheese availability, and once spent four days in a country primarily because I heard their street food scene was otherworldly. So when June rolls around and … Read more
Let me be honest with you: I have booked flights specifically around food festivals. Not “oh, there happens to be a festival while I’m there” — I mean full-on reverse-engineered my entire travel calendar so that I land in Singapore during the World Street Food Congress and not a single day before the Pad Thai … Read more
Let me tell you something about myself: I have absolutely booked a round-trip flight to Europe based entirely on the existence of a cheese tasting. No regrets. And if you’re the kind of person who considers a restaurant reservation a legitimate travel itinerary, then May is your month. The best food festivals May has to … Read more
Let me be honest with you: I have never once planned a trip around a museum. I have, however, rearranged an entire spring itinerary because I found out a small Sardinian village would be slow-roasting suckling pig over open flame for four days straight. If you’re the kind of traveler who considers a restaurant reservation … Read more
Let me be honest with you: I have never once booked a flight because of a museum. I have, however, rerouted an entire itinerary because I found out a remote corner of Southeast Asia was serving a dish that only exists for one gloriously chaotic week a year. If you plan your travels the way … Read more
