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How to Pair Coffee and Desserts (and a holiday gift idea)

How to Pair Coffee and Desserts

I’m a coffee snob and I’m not ashamed to admit it.  I only drink one or two cups a day, but I make sure they are delicious. No gas station coffee for me. I’ve long been incapable of brewing coffee at home. Somehow it tastes weak and insipid (my boyfriend calls it noodle water) or

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Filed Under: Food, Uncategorized Tagged With: atlas coffee club, cinnamon, coffee, czech gingerbread kolache, dark chocolate, gingerbread, holiday gift guide, holiday gift idea, how to pair coffee with desserts, lebkuchen, peppermint, pumpkin madeleines

Czech Gingerbread Kolache

A delicious European Christmas cookies inspired by the kolaches in Prague. A soft gingerbread base filled with poppy seeds and topped with a buttery streusel.

Sometimes I’m amazed at the taste memories that stick with me long after I travel. Some of them are expected: fish and chips in London, Peking duck in Beijing, tapas in Barcelona. Other times, I’m caught by surprise when I’m still thinking about certain foods months or years after tasting them. These Czech gingerbread kolache are

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Filed Under: Cookies, International, Travel Inspired, Uncategorized Tagged With: christmas, christmas cookies, cookies, czech republic, Eating Europe, Eating Prague, europe, european, gingerbread, holiday, kolache, prague

Lebkuchen – German Gingerbread Cookies

Lebkuchen German Gingerbread Cookies

A few years ago, my boyfriend Graham and I spent the week of Valentine’s Day in Munich, Germany.  As soon as we landed, the city started experiencing heavy snowfall, wicked winds, and bitterly cold temperatures that ended up lasting the duration of our trip.  Within a few hours, we relented and made our way to a

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Filed Under: Cookies, Desserts, Holiday, International, Recipes, Travel Tagged With: alton brown, christmas, cookies, germany, gingerbread, lebkuchen, munich, sauna, therme spa, Travel, valentines day, winter

The Hungry Traveler by Jordan Hamons is a culinary travel blog about globally inspired cooking and food-focused travel.
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