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Something Fishy: Ecuador Essential Eats Part 3

September 10, 2013

  When I was researching all the food I was going to encounter in Ecuador, (obviously way more important than sightseeing), I was worried that there wouldn’t be a lot of pescatarian items for me. South America tends to be a meat-heavy cuisine, and it shows when you walk through the plethora of beef and…

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Filed Under: Restaurants, Travel Tagged With: Ecuador, Fish, Llapingacho, Maito, Pescado, Shikhalamode, Snapper, Summer, Travel, Trout

Loco for Locro: Ecuador Essential Eats Part 2

September 9, 2013

Now, when you’re galavanting about Ecuador at elevations of 9,000 – 13,000 feet and you only bring two pairs of pants (genius move, really), it gets pretty damn cold. Luckily, South America has an answer for these nippy noodles – locro. A traditional potato and cheese soup, locro is very popular in cities along the Andes…

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Filed Under: Restaurants, Travel Tagged With: Cotocachi, Ecuador, El Mitad del Mundo, Locro, Potatoes, Quito, San Pablo, Shikhalamode, Summer, Travel

Ecuador Essential Eats Part 1: Quito

September 8, 2013

8 days, hundreds of photos, and a slow crawl back to reality later, I present to you the good, bad, and bizarre eats from the world of Ecuador. ¡Bienvenidos! Our stay in Ecuador began and ended in its capital city, Quito. Located 9,350 feet above sea level, it is summery enough to stay warm during…

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Coffee, Ecuador, Ice cream, Passionfruit, Quito, Shikhalamode, Summer, Travel

Q&A: Liz Emery and Why NOLA is Baller

May 30, 2013

Today’s post is a mouth-watering snapshot of the eats and treats in New Orleans, brought to you by my whacky and loveable coworker/homegirl Liz Emery! When Liz isn’t sales planning the crap out of our company, she has been experiencing all sorts of awesome foods around the country. Hailing from Chicago, she visited the land…

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Filed Under: Restaurants, Travel Tagged With: Alligator, Beignets, Cajun, Guest Post, Jambalaya, New Orleans, NOLA, Oysters, Shikhalamode

SXSW, aka The Weekend I Woke Up In a New Bugatti

March 20, 2013

Okay, #notreallytho, but with the amount of times that song was played this past weekend, the entire city of Austin may as well have woken up in a shiny new sportscar because that’s how ballin’ South by Southwest was. To back it up a bit: I spent four days last week at SXSW Music in…

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Filed Under: Restaurants, Travel Tagged With: Austin, Dessert, Food, SXSW, Tacos, Travel

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Shikha here - a Bay Area native, content marketer, and pastry cook-turned blogger living in San Francisco. I see the world through food (and Drake lyrics), and am here to help you eat life to its fullest.

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