Dinner with Hemingway Posted in Food, on October 21, 2012 MADRID, SPAIN – Botin has been serving customers for 287 years. People were eating Iberian ham here before Captain Cook took a boat cruise to Australia and the Americans decided to try their hand at Liberty. 0 Bray, seven-star town Posted in Food, on October 20, 2012 BRAY, ENGLAND – The village of Bray has a cumulative total of seven Michelin stars. This means that it has an average of one star per 857 residents, which also means that it is statistically more delicious than Paris. 0 The heart of the matter Posted in Food, on May 26, 2012 HANOI, VIETNAM – The Swiss eat horses, Mexicans eat grasshoppers, Americans put marshmallows on sweet potato. In the village of Le Mat, just outside Hanoi, snakes are purpose-bred for a meal of a very different tenor. 0 Teen spirit, Seattle style Posted in Cities, on July 1, 2011 SEATTLE, USA – It smells like teen spirit, comes in small to venti, and wears its wild weather like an unflappable teenager. Seattle takes deep sea fishing and adds software companies and a dash of grunge culture. 0 Alpine trek in good taste Posted in Food, on October 1, 2010 VALAIS, SWITZERLAND – ''Everyone has a wine heart here,'' says hiking guide Caroline Zufferey as we march high above the town of Sion, past grapes that shimmer in the breathless heat of summer. 0