Aug 30, 2019
I love to experience local culture through it’s food offerings
and hate to waste any part of my travels on a bad meal. I have my
finger on the pulse of the LA dining scene but I’ve been following
the local chefs and their careers for years, some well over a
decade. What’s my strategy when I travel? I do a search on
chowhound with the name of the city I am interested in visiting.
For popular chowhound cities, the search results will be plentiful
with many recent recommendations. When I see that the search yields
scant results or there are not entries within the last couple of
years, I know I’m not in a culinary destination. It doesn’t mean
that it’s not a worthy cultural destination, it just means the food
culture is not strong enough yet for it to appeal to other foodies.
A good example is Ireland, the chowhound boards are pretty quiet
about Dublin. Most days I prefer my own cooking to any of the
restaurants. But when I was in Barcelona, I tried dozens of
restaurants based on fellow Chowhound recommendations. Spain has a
strong food culture, Ireland does not. I also search for local food
bloggers, some are recommended within the chowhound boards. Some I
just find on google.
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