The Luxury of Simple Cooking While Traveling

Mark’s notes from the road

As I write this, we are in Liguria, Camogli, to be precise: soon on our way to a quick overnight stop in a town called Borgio Varezzi from where Kathleen will go to Turin for Slow Food Terra Madre, and I will go to London for some research and visiting of old friends.

The last couple of weeks of traveling have been different than those when my primary goals were finding restaurants or chefs to write about or shoot with, or to learn about how people were growing food or making oil or wine. The primary goal of this trip has always been recreational — as close to a vacation as I’ll ever get.