Culinary AdventuresJuly 5, 2015

Travel to Poland: Magical Masuria and din in Ryn

After breakfast I want show you the region of Masuria, the land of one thousand lakes. The best way for us to visit this region is, when we get there, to walk a bit and then to rent a small houseboat and spend a few hours on the water exploring.

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Grajewo cemetery.

Culinary AdventuresJuly 3, 2015

Travel to Poland: Gravely Grajewo

Wanda Hennig blogs about her month-long ‘roots’ trip to Poland. Positively Poland: Two “We should take early breakfast and drive to Grajewo (up toward the […]

Culinary AdventuresMarch 1, 2013

Taste for Travel: 20 Tips for Culinary Travel Adventurers

A foodie panel talks Culinary Travel at the Bay Area Travel & Adventure Show. If you’re a seasoned culinary traveler, a culinary travel wanna-be or […]

Culinary AdventuresSeptember 9, 2012

Going Dippy with Durban’s Dino

Discovering the delights of Dino Constantinou’s Mediterranean kitchen. Story and pictures by Wanda Hennig First published in the Sunday Tribune, May 27, 2012   When […]

Culinary AdventuresOctober 18, 2010

Culinary Kenya: Tough old bird doesn’t cut it; Molo lamb does

Story and pics: Wanda Hennig   I didn’t go to Kenya for a culinary experience. I went with a commission to write about a nonprofit […]

Culinary AdventuresSeptember 18, 2010

On the road from Durban: Nambiti and Qambathi escapes

We would set off from Durban and drive about three hours to Nambiti Plains Private Game Lodge. We would go on game drives, hopefully see the Big Five, and food-wise, there was a vegetarian focus. Next day we would drive to Qambathi Mountain Lodge, which also has game and where the food was reputedly excellent.
Story and photos by Wanda Hennig

“Dave says I’m Thelma and you’re Louise,” my food writer friend Anne tells me when she pulls up in her car to fetch me. Dave is her boyfriend. Thelma and Louise is the road trip movie. We are leaving on a road trip. We’ve done road trips before. For example, a memorable one where we visited cooking schools and foodie joints through Napa and Sonoma and wrote about them…

Culinary AdventuresFebruary 25, 2010

Berlin celebrates currywurst. So what about poutine and bunny chow?

I thought I knew all about Germany food, sausages included. Bratwurst, bockwurst and leberwurst were on my family’s snack menu from when I was a […]

BuddhismFebruary 9, 2010

Zen and The Art of Vegetarian Cooking

Greens Restaurant in San Francisco has an outstanding reputation for fine produce and creative food.
Story by Wanda Hennig This story was first published in Food Illustrated magazine, London, with photography by Richard Jung

A visit to Greens in San Francisco is a celebration of the senses. Dip your spoon into a bowl of butternut squash soup and delight in the delicate harmony of lightly caramelized onions and apple confit blended with a hint of calvados. Feast your eyes on a salad that marries fresh ripe figs with Kodata, Mission and Calmyra olives, melon, watercress and creamy goat’s cheese. Inhale and delight …

Culinary AdventuresNovember 28, 2009

Too many cooks? Not at this table

When eight East Bay culinary divas stir the pot and spill the beans, what you get is a sizzling stir fry of raucous musings, candidness, collaboration, ebullience and deliciousness.
By Wanda Hennig — See full story in Oakland Magazine, November 2009 and Alameda Magazine, November 2009
They met around three tables pulled into a rough circle at Brown Sugar Kitchen in Oakland. During the roundtable discussion, the women talked together, talked over each other and talked totally off-topic — more like being at a good dinner party where wine and conversation flow freely. But there was no wine, just coffee beforehand and slices of carrot cake with walnut at the end.

Culinary AdventuresSeptember 4, 2009

Cuisine Noir Magazine goes live — epicurean adventures for African Americans

Oakland publisher discovers the joys of culinary diversity, educates her palate — and now, shares the flavors online Story by Wanda Hennig When V. Sheree […]

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