Amelia Smith
GET UPDATES FROM Amelia Smith
Amelia Smith moved from San Francisco to Paris in 1997, all the better to write about travel, food and culture without borders.

Blog Entries by Amelia Smith

Silver Linings

Posted April 29, 2010 | 13:54:47 (EST)

Halfway through our unscheduled eleven-day layover, still waiting for the ash cloud to dissipate, I started eating beetles and crickets.

Our travel insurance had run out, but that's not why. Grilled insects are a delicacy in Cambodia, the latest stop on what was now becoming a family version of Eat,...

Read Post

Adrift, Not Unlike an Ash Cloud

Posted April 21, 2010 | 09:01:13 (EST)

Day Three of our Singapore sojourn, courtesy of the unpronounceable volcano. Both of us wake up with a plan.

Mine: find a cheap vacation rental before we blow the rest of our travel insurance money on business hotels. His: re-ticket to New York, cross the Atlantic by ship and train...

Read Post

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Ferries Too)

Posted April 19, 2010 | 01:43:45 (EST)

Midnight Thursday at Gate A3 in Singapore's Changi Airport, minutes away from boarding a flight back to Paris, we heard the announcement: "Delayed Indefinitely".

The day before: tangerine sunset off the Andaman Coast of Thailand. Three days later: we are but three of thousands of Europe-bound passengers affected by the...

Read Post

French Chefs Stop Serving Bluefin: A Case of Conscience -- With Perhaps a Dash of Guilt?

Posted February 25, 2010 | 17:08:58 (EST)

As of January 1st, in advance of the European Parliament's vote to protect Northern bluefin tuna under the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species, some of France's top chefs have stopped serving the critically endangered fish - also known as red tuna - in their establishments.

Hélène Darroze...

Read Post