Taxi Gourmet – Fasten your seat belt and let the food quest begin…

  “Maybe it’s one of the best Thai in town,” Rumen told me, as he led me into an indoor mall on Frankfurter Allee, to a restaurant called Sala Thai, at the beginning of our taxi-food tour of Berlin. Sala Thai is sandwiched between the post office and a Mäc-Geiz, …

This is the fourth in a series of posts about how Taxi Gourmet the blog led to Driving Hungry the book. In Part 1, I wrote about how I found my agent. In Part 2, I described what went into writing my book proposal. In Part 3, I talked about …

To ride in Troy Johnson’s cab was to get a taste of New York City in its glory days. To eat at El Quijote, his favorite restaurant in Manhattan, on the ground floor of the Chelsea Hotel, was to be transported to another time and place. So you can understand …

One of my goals in 2015 – besides eating more – is to crowdsource the food quests: I would love, love, love to start publishing stories of your taxi adventures here, in any city, in any form – whether photo, video, or (50 to 500-word) postcards in text, like this …

I spent more time with my manuscript than doing taxi adventures in 2014, so this list is a little thin. I hereby resolve to make it fatter in 2015. In any case, I wanted to tell you about a few of my favorite dishes from this past year – some …

This is the third in a series of posts about how Taxi Gourmet the blog led to Driving Hungry the book. In Part 1, I wrote about how I found my agent. In Part 2, I described what went into writing my book proposal. In Part 4, I’ll talk about …

Lamb ‘antrikote’ at Maranda. Photo by autofiktion.com   I have to confess I’m a little rusty, not to mention a little resistant, when it comes to jumping back into the taxi adventures after spending most of the last two years sitting at my computer, writing about taxi adventures gone by. …

© Jorge Royan / https://www.royan.com.ar / CC-BY-SA-3.0   Good news for choripán aficionados in Buenos Aires: Taxi Gourmet reader Rodrigo Varela Perarnau recently paid a visit to Mi Sueño, my favorite sausage sandwich stand on the Costanera Sur, and it turns out their choripán is as glorious as ever. In …

This is the second in a series of posts about how I got my book deal, i.e. how Taxi Gourmet led to Driving Hungry. In Part I, I wrote about how I found my agent. In Part III, I’ll write about refining my book proposal and closing the book deal. …

This is Part III of a three-part series about Bulgarian food. In Part II, I wrote about five cabbie-recommended places to eat in Sofia. In Part I, I wrote about 13 of my favorite things to eat (and drink) in Bulgaria. Photo courtesy autofiktion.com   If you ever decide to …