Category Archives: Restaurants and hotels

Shawnee Inn’s Own Local Sourcing

Great Shawna Island Farm at Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort

Pennsylvania’s Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort takes food sustainability seriously, and creates profits, taking food from their farm to their tables.

 

Shawnee’s beekeeper Erin Schroll

ShawneeCraft Brewery: aging beer in oak casks & hand bottled
Foodshed Alliance products at Shawnee Inn’s Tuesday market

 

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Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort: Preserving Pennsylvania’s Best for a Century

Jackie Gleason learned how to play golf at Shawnee in 1959

“Out with the old and in with the older.”

Shawnee’s Centenary motto

 

On Pennsylvania’s Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort’s spacious and secluded grounds guard bees congregate on the porch of the hives providing ventilation for the life of the queen. Six varieties of tomatoes, white eggplant, Chinese five-color peppers and multi-colored chard thrive in the middle of one of America’s oldest award-winning golf courses. Micro-beers are being bottled by a former electronics engineer of advanced defense weapons. Goat cheese is delivered fresh from a local farm. The mist on the Delaware River swirls through the tree-covered Pocono Mountains, and Frank Sinatra’s voice croons softly through the 100 year old lobby. This is the 21st Century?

 

The River Sanctuary
Shawnee Inn (1911)
guard bees in the Apiary – they’re providing cooling ventilation for the Queen
Chinese 5-color pepper at the Shawnee Farm
The Verandah at Shawnee Inn
The Inn in the evening

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Galveston Gourmet Photo Essay

Saltwater Cafe’s decorative lamp, soft sculptures and Silver Spoon Award hanging just below the 6′ Ike water level marker

Galveston, Texas, from breakfast at the Tremont through a late night cocktail at  M & M’s, this city should be on any foodie’s culinary map.

Mosquito Cafe
Ship Channel from Willy G’s
M & M Restaurant & Bar
Tremont House Hotel’s restored 1888 Henry Toujouse rosewood bar from the former First Henry’s Cafe
Tremont House Hotel lounge from the Cafe

Star Drug Store, 1906

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Teaching, Cooking, Writing and Travel

“I was born with “wanderlust” according to the Minneapolis Multi Phasic Personality Inventory, a psych test I took in my 20′s.”

A great web site, www.teachingtraveling.com has just published an interview article they requested that I write:

“I’m a teacher. If I can teach hundreds of kids, I can teach myself.”

Parque National Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks: Days of Food and Wine

From the moment you drive across the 1931 Bagnell Dam you know you’ve entered a different world.

Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks: Days of Food and Wine

Read more at Global Writes, the journal of the International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association

The Black Trumpet, Spring Lake, NJ: Gourmet Lunch on a Budget

The Black Trumpet’s lunch in tony Spring Lake, New Jersey, is oceanfront fine dining at a fast food price.

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Spring Lake: New Jersey’s Irish Festival on the Riviera

Spring Lake, NJ, known as the “Irish Riviera,” goes all things Gallic in mid-June – but no green beer.

 

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Kansas City, MO: Blues, BBQ and Baklava

Kansas City: this gateway to the west kept on the move gathering an international mix of cultures, food, jazz and blues defying mid-west stereotypes.

 

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Kansas City: Missouri’s Modern Day Phoenix

Missouri’s Kansas City is undergoing a revival that’s attracting businesses back from the suburbs and especially from that “other” Kansas City.

 

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Columbia, Missouri: A Zou for the Lively Arts

Be it jewelry, painting, film, music, writing or culinary, 100,000 Columbians enjoy a surprisingly rich artistic life – and a lively “Zou” of 50,000 students.

Beetle Bailey and Me
Thomas Jefferson’s original tomb stone at the University of Missouri
Sycamore’s Missouri Legacy Beef Tenderloin
University of Missouri
Organic Beet Salad at the Main Squeeze Natural Foods and Juice Bar

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