Windstar Cruises Into Portofino By Kristy Alpert / September 15, 2016 With only 500 inhabitants, Portofino, Italy, has long been favored by A-list celebrities for its luxe location, luring the likes of Ava Gardner, Giorgio Armani, Leonardo DiCaprio and more since the early 1950s. Although it still draws the celebrity crowd,…
East of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, the British Virgin Islands is a self-governing overseas territory of the United Kingdom that includes more than 60 islands and cays within a 58-square-mile radius. Of the 60 islands, only 15 are inhabited, including the four main islands of Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, and…
This Crispy and Spicy Vietnamese Grilled “Pizza” Is Better Than Any American Chain Pie Here’s how to make this Vietnamese street food at home BY KRISTY ALPERTAugust 1, 2016 PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK ALPERT Unless you’re at some fancy-pants brick-oven place, face it: all pizzas are pretty much the same. Yeah,…
Hotels with a Past I let the warm Cusco sun slowly melt the ice in my pisco cocktail while I sat back and soaked in my surroundings at the JW Marriott El Convento Cusco’s historic courtyard café. The space once belonged to a 16th-century convent where an order of Augustinian…
A Sense of Place New Zealand’s landscape is a tantalizing departure for the palate and the soul By KRISTY ALPERT The Awatere Valley from above, where foragers hunted for wild game at Forage 2016. Photo by Kieran Scott I feel the smooth pebbles shift and settle beneath me as I take one more…
This Military Dish Is the Best Hangover Meal You’ll Ever Eat Give the stick-to-your-ribs, no-frills meal a try BY KRISTY ALPERT PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK ALPERT Maybe you know it as Creamed Chipped Beef. Maybe you know it by its less savory name, Shit on a Shingle. But if you know the…
