Empire Restaurant in Bangalore is basically the Chipotle of Tamil Nadu, India. Cheap, delicious food that may or may not have you crying on the toilet later. Foodie adventures in a developing country- you just never know what you might find! But if you are traveling through southern India, Tandoori Chicken Kabobs are an easy, …
Today I’m hiking for myself. I’m not carrying anyone else’s discarded blue plastic poop bags out (Besides mine and my dogs). I’m not picking up anyone else’s trash. I’m certainly not breaking down anyone else’s fire pits. I spend ninety percent of my life entertaining other people and cleaning up the once pristine forest. As …
As a nature lover, I really don’t want to have rage in my heart when it comes to little varmints but all the relaxing lake days on earth can not soothe my soul when the local ground squirrels treat my front yard like Souplantation, Big Bear Lake. I have spent way too much of my …
Southern California—home to sunshine, surfboards, and a grocery store for every craving under the sun. You can’t go a block without stumbling across a new healthy market promising everything from gluten-free quinoa chips to hand-picked seaweed harvested by ancient monks (okay, maybe not that last one… but we can dream). If you’re tired of the …
It’s only 7 a.m. and I am already having such a Monday. There is nothing like being in the middle of mixing up a cake batter, opening a brand new bag of marshmallows to find it is chock-full of ants. As a lifelong baker, I have never had anything like this happen to me in …



