Dining

Japan is my spirit country. Greater Tokyo is the world’s most populous metropolitan area and the country’s culture, finance, and government center. This is hard to fathom considering the cleanliness, quietness, and order you encounter everywhere you go. From the malls, subways, to the city streets you can find structure. Tokyo offers an eclectic mix […]

In 2022 the World’s 50 Best Restaurant organization recognized a diverse slate of altruists in the culinary space. I had the pleasure of interviewing two prior to the awards in London. First up: Chef Malonga.   Kigali, Rwanda based Chef Dieuveil Malonga is one of the recipients of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2022 Champion

  The 2019 World’s 50 Best festivities in Singapore seems like a dream from a prior decade, yet also feels as if it occurred weeks ago. A survey of the population during COVID shows 40% of respondents said time was passing faster and 40% felt it was passing slower. Perplexingly I find myself hovering somewhere

Let’s Start At The BeginningThough I spent the last two decades gallivanting the globe and relocating to four states, Cincinnati will always be home. Even the photo above, taken at the Hotel Covington in Northern Kentucky, is poignant because I was raised by my Reed grandparents who migrated in the late 40s from the Deep

I LOVE NEW YORK! Apart from places I lived I have spent more time in NYC than any other city by far. I began my professional career twenty years ago at Macy’s Corporate, which is the parent company for two New Year City icons: Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s. As a result, I spent the equivalent of

Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. The Celts, lived 2,000 years ago, mostly in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France. On the night of October 31st they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth, then celebrated

I love Singapore! Shopping malls abound, the weather is warm, streets are clean, and I always feel safe. Sentosa Island and the tourist hot spots are great, yet the best part is the FOOD! You can imagine my excitement when I was granted an invitation to the 2019 World’s Best Restaurants Awards in Singapore. The

Paris is a city where I can make an annual pilgrimage. For the past three years I have done just that. It is one of a handful of cities I would pack my bags in a heartbeat and move there. I love the people, the food, the history… This blog post will center around one

The French Riviera (Côte d’Azur) is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France, in he Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. Nice, Cannes, St. Tropez, and Antibes are some of the more well known towns. The principality of Monaco is a semi-enclave within the region, surrounded on three sides by France and fronting the Mediterranean. It

To commemorate the 100th birthday of the late founding father Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the UAE has designated 2018 as the ‘Year of Zayed’. In January I was extremely excited to celebrate my birthday during such a monumental year. I am equally fortunate to have a friend, who is a kindred spirit, based