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Happy-Gourmand

Holiday food

Kristin and I just came back from holiday. New York was it for us this year and we had a great time. We had so many unique food experiences…

After a 10 hour trek from plane to plane to plane, we were starving and looking to finish the day with a good meal to get us ready for the next day. We found a sushi/Japanese restaurant two steps from our hotel. A buffet 95 feet long and I took the time to count 140 different dishes from cold to hot. Many salads, sushi rolls, sushi cones made to order, sashimi everything, grilled meats, grilled seafood, whole fishes I had never tasted, crispy soft shell crabs, king crab legs, crab cakes, rice dishes, noodle dishes, and so much more… we finished our enormous meal at the ice cream and crepes station… wow I love New York!

A couple days later, we stopped to grab a slice at a famous pizza joint… all of them are actually famous according to locals. Great flavours, great selection and almost no place to sit and eat. The tables were so packed in that restaurant that I could kiss my wife without stretching at all. I love New York!

Our next stop was a very cozy wine and cheese bar in the Soho district. The kitchen was smaller than most house kitchens and to go get supplies you had to go outside the building, open a steel door on the sidewalk and go down a set of extremely narrow stairs. The food was really good and we tasted a few great wines too. I love New York!

One morning we took three subways across town and walked six blocks in the driving wind just to go taste a few donuts. This was a really fun shop we had heard about a year ago watching our CBS Sunday Morning TV show. Not disappointing at all, peanut butter and jelly glaze and the coconut filled and covered with a coconut fondant that was to die for. That night we went to see the Knicks play basketball at the Madison Square Garden and they actually won just for us! I love New York!

It was not the most relaxing holiday, but an extremely brain stimulating kind of holiday. So much to see in a place where the word big does not even begin to explain the size and magnitude of everything.

I will have more about our holiday and my work day(stage) at an amazing restaurant next week.

I love New York!

This article is written by or on behalf of an outsourced columnist and does not necessarily reflect the views of Castanet.



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About the Author

Kristin Peturson-Laprise is a customer experience specialist by trade, which means she is someone passionate about people having a good time. 

Her company, Wow Service Mentor, helps businesses enhance their customer experience through hands-on training, service programs, and special event coordination.

Kristin enjoys her own experiences too, and that is what she writes about in this column. She and her husband Martin Laprise (also known as Chef Martin, of The Chef Instead) love to share their passion for food and entertaining.  

Kristin says:

"Wikipedia lists a gourmand as a person who takes great pleasure in food. I have taken the concept of gourmandise, or enjoying something to the fullest, in all parts of my life. I love to grow and cook food, and I loved wine enough to become a Sommelier. I call a meal a success when I can convey that 'sense of place' from where the food has come . . . the French call that terroir, but I just call it the full experience. It might mean tasting the flavours of my own garden, or transporting everyone at the table to a faraway place, reminiscent of travels or dreams we have had."

 

E-mail Kristin at:  [email protected]

Check out her website here:  www.wowservicementor.com

 



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