As time allows, I plan to pick a popular travel destination and post reviews of the best-selling travel books written about it that I have been reading all month. I also plan to include the best matching recipes I can find, plus regional music, cultural literature, and a movie that celebrates the location. I plan to do this all from my living room for all except one location; Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado. For Colfax, I will leave my living room and hunt down recipes and experiences that celebrate the travel location chosen for that month. For example, for the Caribbean, I will hunt for Caribbean restaurants and experiences that can be found on Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado, and post some of my findings on this blog, for you to enjoy. I also plan to interview the people who work on and live near Colfax Avenue, and get snippets of stories of how they have brought hope to Colfax Avenue. Their stories won't be on my blog, they will be found in a book, that plan to publish in about Spring of 2016. A portion of the proceeds of my book will go to help bring even more hope to Colfax Avenue.
In order to enjoy armchair travel, at home, you will need to have mastered three skills:
- intermediate cooking skills
- the skill of shopping at international specialty grocery stores. (If there are not any in your area, I will include links to online shops.)
- the skill of finding time to shop, cook, and eat without interruption by budgeting your time, prioritizing your tasks, delegating your responsibilities, automating some of your tasks, and/or giving tasks to others that really belong to them for a while.
If you have trouble cooking the recipes you can find if anyone else has already solved this problem by clicking the forum link (http://armchairtravelcook.freeforums.net/), located near the top of my blog, or by emailing me at armchiartravelcooking@gmail.com.
If your cooking skills are hopelessly below intermediate, and you live near Denver, Colorado, you can simply visit one of the Colfax Avenue restaurants in this blog. If your cooking skills are hopelessly below intermediate, and you don't live near Denver, Colorado, perhaps you can find a restaurant in your city that will cook a similar dish for you. Or perhaps you can find a restaurant in your city listed in the forum, or by emailing me, so that I can search for you.
One of my cooking rules that I must warn you about, that you might not like; is that I never use sugar when I cook. So, all of my recipes will be adapted to be a sugar-free, and sometimes I simply serve fruit instead of a dessert. I am a very busy person, and for the past 17 years, I have found that I have more energy, and get more done each day, if I eat an organic whole food diet. White sugar is not a whole food. And if I can't eat organic whole foods everyday, I will remain energetic if I at least, don't eat sugar. I do use sweeteners, but only stevia, honey, fruit juice, barley malt, rice syrup, or erythritol.
If your cooking skills are hopelessly below intermediate, and you live near Denver, Colorado, you can simply visit one of the Colfax Avenue restaurants in this blog. If your cooking skills are hopelessly below intermediate, and you don't live near Denver, Colorado, perhaps you can find a restaurant in your city that will cook a similar dish for you. Or perhaps you can find a restaurant in your city listed in the forum, or by emailing me, so that I can search for you.
One of my cooking rules that I must warn you about, that you might not like; is that I never use sugar when I cook. So, all of my recipes will be adapted to be a sugar-free, and sometimes I simply serve fruit instead of a dessert. I am a very busy person, and for the past 17 years, I have found that I have more energy, and get more done each day, if I eat an organic whole food diet. White sugar is not a whole food. And if I can't eat organic whole foods everyday, I will remain energetic if I at least, don't eat sugar. I do use sweeteners, but only stevia, honey, fruit juice, barley malt, rice syrup, or erythritol.
I am reviewing 10 kinds of travel journals; New York Times Bestsellers, conventional, paperless, kid-friendly, wheelchair-friendly, dog-friendly, humanitarian or mission travel, eco-travel, any information I can find about touring intentional communities.
These travel journals can be grouped into three kinds of travelers:
The conventional tourist, who wants to take time off from work for a well-deserved and sometimes badly need break from the stress and sometimes the disappointments of life.
The humanitarian tourist, who wants to take time off from work to bring hope to hopeless parts of the world.
And the working tourist, who wants to earn money as they travel.
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