Rose Cantine

I am testing various DIY social networking sites, specifically the ones that let you roll your own. To start, I decided on Crowdvine and created the Food and Travel Group. It’s not open to everyone. I will select who gets in, like the obnoxious doorman at a London club. I want people who have tastebuds [...]

Nina and Tim Zagat’s op-ed in the New York Times blames 9/11 for the abysmal state of Chinese food in the United States. The visa restrictions prevent good Chinese chefs from working in the US. Salon picked up on the issue and says that can’t be it. Why is there good Thai, Vietnamese and Korean [...]

I just posted a long piece about why mass market online review sites for hotels and restaurants don’t work. I’m thinking about Tripadvisor and Yelp. You don’t know who the reviewer is. Has she traveled a lot? Does she eat out frequently? Does she share the same tastes as you?
Read my post on Pajama Entrepreneur.

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Slow Food Amsterdam is holding a farmers market on Saturday 16 June 2007 from 10:00 to 16:00 at the Westergasfabriek. The Slow Food movement started in Italy as a revolt against fast food. The focus is on small local producers and the enjoyment of food together with friends and family, sustainable farming and supporting local [...]

www.101cookbooks.com: Heidi Swanson is the author of Super Natural Cooking, a cookbook filled with delicious vegetarian recipes. I’ve been granola and sushi rice with avocado from this book and they’re fantastic.
Many of the people who write popular food blogs also have also written books that you can buy from Amazon or in bookstores. For publishing [...]

I just returned from a one-week trip to Israel (March 16-23, 2007) where I attended Kinnernet 2007. I also spoke at The Marker’s annual tech event and at a Digital Policy symposium in Jerusalem. Apart from the lovely beach weather, one of the things I appreciated most about this trip was the food. They [...]

Who serves the best chocolate eclairs in Paris? According to Le Figaro:

1 - Carette (4 place du Trocadéro XVIe)
2 - Jean-paul Hevin (23 bis avenue de la Motte-Piquet VIIe)
3 - Stohrer (51 rue Montorgueil IIe)
4 - Ladurée (16 rue Royale VIIIe)
5 - Vandermeersch (278 av. Daumesnil XIIe)
6 - La Maison du Chocolat (8 bd. de [...]