Gourmet Travel and Food Series

Travel and food are two of my greatest loves. Thankfully they can easily be enjoyed together. In fact, great food compliments travel like great wine compliments a fine meal.

For me, combining these two loves into a career would be the dream job of the century. Gourmet magazine Editor-in-Chief Ruth Reichl has managed to land such a job and I think I hate her for it.

Reichl has a new PBS show on air called “Diary of a Foodie” in which she travels and eats. And, I don’t mean down to the local grease bucket for a cheeseburger.

No, so far Reichl has traveled to China, Barcelona, Italy, and Seattle to indulge in area specialties and evoke salivation from our glands.

This is a great show, but not one to be enjoyed at home with a frozen pizza-unless you really want to ask yourself, yet again, what are you doing with your life?

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