Q? What was your favorite "new taste" while visiting somewhere?

It was love at first bite when I tried the Frito Pie in

Santa Fe, New Mexico. Couldn’t stop eating it. Also the green chile sauce and red chile sauce in Sante Fe....unbelievably good and unlike any we’ve found elsewhere.

In New Orleans we swooned over the beignets at Café du Monde and café au lait made from chickory coffee...sooo good; amazing cajun soft-shell crab and pasta; piquant muffaletta sandwiches; and tasty crawfish made every which way.

Other favorite new tastes....flavorful creamy gelatos in Italy; to-die-for chicken mole at a hillside restaurant in Cabo San Lucas; mile-high mouth-watering pastrami sandwiches in New York City; blue crabs in Baltimore washed down with great local beer; in Germany...delicious schnitzel so big it was hanging off the sides of the plate; sharing a huge opakapaka fish with hubby while sitting at the bar of a restaurant in Maui...the fish (with head and tail) arrived on a large platter with 2 forks...one of the best fish dinners we’ve ever had.

 
Key lime pie and grouper in Florida, café au lait and sourdough roll with beurre for

breakfast in Nice (been there too Mar, twice!), fish 'n' chips with malt vinegar in Scotland, Red Stripe Beer in Jamaica, conch fritters in St. Thomas, espada preta, prawns, and Portuguese-style steak with gravy and fries in Lisbon, English breakfast in England… so, so many!

 
In Paris: strawberry, lemon, and apple tarts; tuna (in olive oil) sandwiches on baguettes with

sliced hard boiled eggs, tomatoes, olives, vinaigrette, etc; croissants, baguettes, goat cheese, salade composée with beets, corn, tomatoes, red onion, lettuce, etc. and a Dijon vinaigrette; crepes with strawberry jam and powdered sugar, Moroccan couscous, Moroccan cookies, Moroccan fresh mint tea, mouton (sheep)...

In Guadaloupe: Grilled vivaneau (like red snapper or maybe is literally red snapper, but was much better), Durade (another fish)... Mangoes and pineapples like I'd never tasted before - the best!

In Spain (Catalan countryside): freshly made red wine, fresh chicken from the farm, fresh mixed seafood grill right out of the Mediterranean, grilled bread rubbed with fresh tomato, desserts that were out of this world, but don't remember their names!

In Jamaica: Curried Goat

 
Broetchen with curry wurst Germany, brook trout Switzerland, schnitzel Rod and Gun Club Fort Campbell

coffee La Bombonera's San Juan, Big Mama's chicken and johnny cakes St.Lucia, cheese steak Jim's Phila. Have to stop I'm making myself hungry!

 
I've heard that... Whatever it was, it was great, fried and doused with lemon juice!

 
Yes, Marilyn... Sorry, I always read "puff" for "filo" and vice versa... I'm pastry dyslexic.. smileys/smile.gif

 
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