Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Monday, November 22, 2010

Cincinnati to add 4th Food Truck Location

Staying in the state of Ohio as we did earlier this week with a profile of a Columbus food truck, in today's spotlight, we move southward to Cincinnati where the City Council just approved the cities fourth location for food trucks to congregate to p

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Cincinnati to add 4th Food Truck Location


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Friday, November 5, 2010

Tibetan Food and the Tourist Treatment in Western China

Former Traveler staffer Ashley Thompson gives us a glimpse of travel and food in Western China.

tibetan city.jpegOut the bus window, the Wild West of China began to unfurl, as did lush peaks towering over muddy rivers. We whizzed past tiny Sichuan mountain villages, whose daredevil residents sell exotic fruits mere inches from the highway, affording them harsh breezes as tourist buses came and went. We even passed one particularly brave woman doing her daily exercises using the highway guardrail as a makeshift ballet bar.

We had left Sichuan's comparatively glitzy provincial capital, Chengdu, that morning. After a total of nine hours of winding up and down cloud-cloaked mountains, we arrived in Kangding at about 8 p.m. Most of Kangding, considered by Chinese standards a mere blip of a town with a population of 80,000, is squeezed into a valley and sidles up to two rushing rivers that converge near the center of town. The water sounded distinctly frothy, the air crisp. Local street-goers were adorned in a wide array of attire, from sleek blazers to traditional colorful Tibetan robes to Adidas T-shirts. My travel companion and friend, Thomas, and I wore shorts and T-shirts, expecting a climate similar to the one we left in sweltering Chengdu.

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Post originale: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2010/11/tibetan-food-and-the-tourist-t-1.html