A Cook's Tour: Eating on the Mekong

I am away for a short conference in Segovia, Spain; so here's a guest appearance on market day! Anthony Bourdain discovers new tastes at Cái Răng floating market, on the Mekong river in Vietnam [map here].




source/youtube link: http://youtu.be/9rC05bmuHrs



Market day at Peschiera del Garda, Italy

Monday is market day at Peschiera, a lovely town by Lago di Garda in Northern Italy [map here]. We spent a fabulous week or so in northern Italy on August of 2009, mostly in the Trentino-Alto Adige, Lombardy, and Veneto regions, visiting Trento, Verona, Venezia, Bolzano, Parma, Reggio Emilia, and Mantova. Italia, que bellissima.



Carmel Market, Tel Aviv / שוק הכרמל

Olive oil, tahini and smoked fish
Tel Aviv's largest open-air market on a Friday morning. 

The market branches from Carmel St [map here] to the neighboring streets.  It operates officially as a market since 1920. Its original landowners were well to do Russian Jews who purchased the lots in 1913 as an investment. In the aftermath of October 1917 Russian revolution they fled to...

Seafood pasta in creamy rosé vodka sauce

:Ingredients:
  • 200gr fresh shrimps (~20)
  • 200gr salmon fillet
  • 1 onion, carrot, celery stalk
  • Salt, pepper, nutmeg
  • 20gr butter
  • 3 tablsp heavy cream
  • 2 tablsp tomato paste
  • 3/4 cup peas
  • A shot of vodka (28cc)