With much the same fervor as skiers equestrians are selective about their terrain. Equitrekking: Travel Adventures on Horseback (Chronicle Books 978-0-8118-6527-2) profiles dozens of first-rate travel destinations from Spain to Ireland... Read More

Profiles of eighty top snow-skiing destinations is the thrust behind Ski Atlas of the World: The Complete Reference to the Best Resorts (Abbeville Press 978-0-7892-0986-3) a beautifully photographed coffee table-worthy project certain to... Read More

With yearly pilgrimages to Mecca the Muslim world has heavily influenced the notion of spiritual travel. Destinations such as Lourdes Jerusalem and the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain rank as some of the worlds... Read More

A significant part of the United States counter-culture movement of the 1960s and 70s included thousands of adventuresome hippies engaged in spiritual pilgrimages to eastern destinations such as India Nepal Iran and other Hindu Buddhist... Read More

A short list of the most revered Midwestern restaurant chefs over the past twenty-five years includes the likes of Charlie Trotter, Rick Bayless, Jean Joho, Rick Tramonto, Jimmy Schmidt, Michael Symon, and Taka-shi Yagihashi, former chef... Read More

Spain is such a large, diverse, historic, and passionate country, no one should question why it continues to captivate the culinary world’s imagination. Sandwiched between two bountiful seas, rippled with mountains, plains, and rivers... Read More

Not yet an Asian Tiger in the mold of Thai or Vietnamese cooking, Indonesia is rich with indigenous, is-land-food sensibilities complemented by Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, British, and Spanish influences. Over the past 500 years,... Read More

A culinary tour of the west coast wouldn’t be complete without visiting Chez Panisse in Berkeley. Therein we discover A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes: A Year of Menus For a Table of Friends (Artisan, 978-1-57965-346-0), the newly... Read More