Top Ten Culinary Destinations
Eat your way around the world
CHICAGO, IL - iExplore (http://www.iexplore.com/) announced today their list of Top Ten Culinary Destinations as determined by their Adventure Travel Consultants.
1. New Orleans, Louisiana
Food in New Orleans is a way of life and a big part of the city's charm. Any visit here will mean getting your mouth around dishes such as catfish, jambalaya, gumbo and more.
2. Trastevere, Rome
Trastevere's quiet alleyways, traditional restaurants and picturesque quarters are some of the most desirable areas to eat in Rome.
3. Djemaa el-Fna, Marrakech, Morocco
The nightly open-air market that takes place here after dusk is possibly the greatest in the world. Stalls set up under gaslights and the air becomes hazy with the scent of barbecuing meats and seafood.
4. Donguwa Bazaar, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China
These impressive daily markets offer an incredible array of nuts, dried fruits and spices and a popular milky ice drink.
5. Brunswick Street, Melbourne
Brunswick Street best reflects Melbourne's multi cultural, artistic and tolerant soul. Cafes serve up tasty food and organic vegetable shops and flowers line the footpaths.
6. Oaxaca, Mexico
The markets of Oaxaca are famous for their chocolate and unusual local delicacies such as fried grasshoppers and toasted worms.
7. Spice Market, Istanbul, Turkey
No visit to Istanbul is complete without a visit to the spice markets with their piles of heaped saffron, cumin, sumac, apple tea and Turkish delights.
8. San Sebastian, Spain
For a true Hemingway experience of the Basque region you can't go past San Sebastian. Wander the streets of the old town for tapas and down it with local beer and wine.
9. Newtown, Sydney
Newtown is a Bohemian suburb well known for its numerous bars, Thai eateries and Indian takeaways. Nepalese, Maltese and Japanese are just some of the gamut of cuisine on offer.
10. San Francisco
San Francisco is the restaurant capital of the country and awash in culinary riches.
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October 27 2009.
Tabbouleh and hummus.
Lebanese chefs came together last Sunday to break a Guinness record for tabbouleh, a popular Lebanese salad, made up of chopped parsley, bulgur, mint, tomato, spring onion, and other herbs dresses with lemon juice and olive oil.
Under the watch of a Guinness World records judge, 250 sous-chefs from the local Kafalat culinary school cooked up over three and a half tons of tabbouleh, using 1,600 kilos of parsley, 1,500 kilos of tomatoes and 420 kilos of onions.
The tabbouleh record came only a day after Lebanon broke a Guinness record with a two-ton serving of hummus.
National songs were sung as the chefs mixed the tabbouleh into a huge dish cheered on by hundreds of onlookers.
A battle over the origins of hummus and tabbouleh has been underway for a while now to identify such dishes as exclusively Lebanese.
“ This event is an attempt to break the current Guinness world records of hummus and tabbouleh, reaffirming the Lebanese proprietorship of these two dishes," said a statement issued by the Lebanese Industrialist Association and Food Syndicate, which planned the weekend events.
Most consumers in Europe and the States do not give a thought to the origins of hummus but now Lebanon has decided to put hummus in the spotlight for the world to see that this dish actually originates from the Levant.
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