What's on your "Bucket List"?
What food journey is on your list? For me, it would be a tour through Italy of the foods and wines from all the regions. I want to experience the local cultures and taste the foods they painstakingly prepare. I want to eat where they eat and shop where they shop for their own kitchens. I want to savor every drop of the wines they make. I want to meet the people who make those delightful wines and when I leave Italy, I will leave with my mind full of the most incredible memories that will last until bucket time!
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25 Comments:
Japan. Not only the big cities, but also the countryside.
marieinla at 6:33PM on 07/23/08
An intercontinental tour: Spain, Italy, Greece, Israel, Vietnam, Thailand.
holdthemayo at 6:50PM on 07/23/08
I'd want to tour, shop, eat and drink my way through the EU, starting in Ireland and ending in Portugal, All I need is good health, a carry-on bag, a bank full of money and another 40 years. Then I'd do the same in Asia.
In honor of Hyacinth Bucket from "Keeping Up Appearances", I'd pronounce it the Bouquet List. Smells nicer. ;-D
PerkyMac at 6:51PM on 07/23/08
China and Japan. Spain. I would love to go on a "wine, cheese & bread" tour of France (my parents did something similar 30 years ago - they drove across the country, stopped at all kinds of small villages on the way, feasting on local bread, cheese and wine - they claimed that other than fresh seafood, where applicable, they never needed anything else:-)), but I don't have a partner for a trip like this, as my lactose intolerant husband doesn't drink:-).
brooke29 at 7:13PM on 07/23/08
Street food of Asia, particularly the Southeast region. Noodles rice meat-on-stick fish fried mmm...
Pammeh at 7:37PM on 07/23/08
@brooke29...Take your hubby anyway. He can do the driving and you can do the sipping. There'd be lots of good things for him to eat besides the cheese he'd miss out on. :)
holdthemayo at 7:55PM on 07/23/08
@holdthemayo - that's actually a very good idea! Where I get cheese, he can always find pork rillettes...and having a designated driver at all times is certainly a plus!
brooke29 at 8:12PM on 07/23/08
French Laundry, Lolita, a cheesemaking course in Vermont, Hudson Valley, Seattle,...
Cary at 8:57PM on 07/23/08
To try every pizzeria in NYC--even the bad ones. To go to every region in Italy and sample its specialty. To grow really awesome, huge (relatively speaking) San Marzanos.
beth1 at 11:13PM on 07/23/08
Etxebarri in Spain!
foodwhores at 11:50PM on 07/23/08
Philly cheesesteaks and the French Laundry top my U.S. list.
I'd also love to go back to France and Italy with no budget and try out their fine dining experiences. Though I'm sure I'd still buy the pizza, gelato, and pastries from random cafes anyway.
bobcatsteph3 at 6:53AM on 07/24/08
My bucket list place is Ireland, but I need to find a new one after next week. My husband and I are going for 8 days! Yay!
Schnauzer_Mama at 8:54AM on 07/24/08
@Perky -- the Hyacinth Bucket reference cracked me up -- she is - hands down-- my favorite TV character.
My bucket list would include Italy and Spain.
lakeloverhh at 10:58AM on 07/24/08
I'm doing one of them right now. I'm at Canyon Ranch during a special program called Canyon Ranch Cooks - Five Chefs in Seven Days. Looks like I'm going to have to edit that list which also includes:
Travel to Italy and eat pasta and local foods.
Travel to Paris and eat pastry and shee shee French food.
Visit Daniel Leader's bakery (The author of Bread Alone)
Visit San Fran and do the whole sourdough/seafood thing.
Visit wine country and do the wine/olive oil loop.
Teach a cooking class.
chiff0nade at 11:07AM on 07/24/08
My list contains a trip to Norway, back to Ireland for at least two weeks and a fishing/cooking glass in Montana. Weird list. Would also like to go to Rio.
kcogswell at 11:32AM on 07/24/08
First, a trip through Japan, from the cities to the country and everywhere in between. Second, a culinary tour of the Silk Road, so I can taste firsthand the ways that the different foods melded together over time and space. Finally, a tour of Africa to eat all of the foods there from the north to the South.
Traveller at 12:06PM on 07/24/08
In no particular order:
Get a Pacojet.
Canard presse at Tour d'Argent, Paris.
Pigeon Prince Rainer III at Le Grand Vefour, Paris (currently my great culinary regret for not eating previously, but it was too expensive when I went there on my honeymoon some years ago).
elBulli. (Enough said).
minibar, Washington, DC.
Lobster on the pier, purchased from the fisherman's co-op and steamed on site (bring your own pan for the butter and eating implements) in Damariscotta, Maine.
Several more rounds of fried claims at Edward's in Lewiston, Maine.
The Herbfarm.
Pol Roger Cuvee Winston Churchill 1990.
Fish tacos in San Diego.
Multiple fried items at the Iowa State Fair.
Multiple fried seafood items at the Florida State Fair.
Authentic Yunnan ham -- in Yunnan.
Another dim sum and champagne feast with friends at Emporer's Palace in L.A.
Truffle hunting in the South of France or in Perugia. Maybe with Patricia Wells.
White truffle risotto in season at Picholine in New York, followed by some barely legal cheese off of their cart.
Cooking school in Morocco.
Cooking school in Chaing Mai, Thailand, preferably during or near the Water Festival.
Street eating in Hong Kong.
A driving tour (with a driver) of all of the first growth Bordeaux chateau with tastings, followed by a visit to d'Yquem.
Master the Pierre Herme macaron recipe.
A bottle of a good vintage of Romanee-Conti.
A dozen raw oysters and a spicy bloody mary at Felix's in a rebuilt New Orleans.
That should do it . . .
Mizbee at 12:27PM on 07/24/08
el bulli, french laundry. eating my way through europe, latin america, and asia.
foodiegirl at 12:30PM on 07/24/08
In addition to partaking of some of the culinary nirvanas listed above, I intend to make my first parachute jump this year. For 30 years I've wanted to experience this magical moment, and I'm finally going to add this accomplishment to my list. I learned how to fly a Piper Cherokee a long time ago, and now I want to experience "free flight" as well. Crazy? For some maybe. After all, my mother still wants to know why I'd like to jump out of a perfectly good airplane!
Boscompb at 1:25PM on 07/24/08
In the States, French Laundry is at the top of the list, followed by a visit to Blackberry Farm. I'd also like to be able to taste the best sausage, peppers and onion hero (with ricotta cheese).
Then, definitely a wine and cheese tour of France. And a gelato tasting throughout Italy.
cookierookie at 1:37PM on 07/24/08
Mizbee - love your list. More like a 55 Gallon Drum list than a bucket list!
chiff0nade at 2:16PM on 07/24/08
I just backpacked through the amalfi coast and Rome tasting amazing food and I lived in Paris but I would definitely do the French Countryside, Tuscany, Sicily, a bbq tasting across America and every hot pizza spot in America.
JacquelineS at 3:52PM on 07/24/08
Honestly if I could I would love to travel to all the greenmarkets an farmstands an open markets in the States an all over the World!!!! Anybody want to go?
rabbitriddle at 3:58PM on 07/24/08
@mizbee "No particular order" ~ Move Maine to the top of your list! You won't regret it.
izatryt at 6:38PM on 07/24/08
@chiff -- I have given up the rest of my vices, which leaves eating and drinking. When DH and I travel, we make the rezzies first and then book the travel!
@iza - I do love Maine . . . DH has never been, but it was my family's summer vacation for years. I dream about the Edward's fried claims . . . seriously, we would drive about an hour each way from our summer place just to eat dinner. Two orders of fried claims each!
Mizbee at 11:13PM on 07/25/08