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LIZ’S WHERE Y’AT DINER & GREAT GRITS

Who serves the best grits in the United States? This is a rhetorical question because I know the answer. It’s Liz Munson at Liz’s Where Y’at Diner in Mandeville, Louisiana. On the other hand, everything served at Liz’s is special—not just the grits. I love the biscuits […]

HOUSEBOATING AND EGG STRATA

I trace my love of houseboating to the 1958 film Houseboat. In the film Cary Grant lives on a houseboat with his motherless kids and Sophia Loren, a symphony-conductor’s runaway daughter masquerading as a housekeeper. So romantic. So fun. Made me (and every woman and man in 1958 America) want to trade lifestyle—and spouse—for the […]

¶ Posted 12 May 2015 † Susan Manlin Katzman § ARIZONA § BREAKFAST § BRUNCH § CHEESE § CRUISING § LAKE POWELL § NATIONAL PARKS § NEVADA § RECIPES § TRAVEL § UTAH ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: egg strata, eggs, Forever Resorts, houseboats, Lake Mead, Lake Powell

MABEL DODGE LUHAN HOUSE

There is a spirit that hovers over the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico. It’s the spirit of Taos itself, of the mountains and air and light and magic that inspired Native Americans as well as artists, writers, poets and rich socialites from near and far to settle and thrive. Mabel Dodge Luhan—or […]

¶ Posted 27 February 2015 † Susan Manlin Katzman § ACCOMMODATIONS § BREADS § BREAKFAST ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: Aldous Huxley, Ansel Adams, Cream Cheese, D.H. Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mabel Dodge Luhan, muffins, New Mexico, Taos, Taos Pueblo, Tony Luhan, Willa Cather

BEST BREAKFASTS IN LOS ANGELES AND RECIPE FOR FABULOUS FRENCH TOAST

Most Los Angelenos are religious about dieting. With movie star focus on beautiful bodies, the savvy shun sugar, fat and all those awful carbohydrates. But when it comes to breakfast, the devil takes over the City of Angels and lures even stringent believers to abandon restraint for total decadence. Dieters tempted to indulge in forbidden […]

¶ Posted 22 February 2013 † Susan Manlin Katzman § BREAKFAST § BRUNCH § CALIFORNIA § LOS ANGELES § RECIPES § TRAVEL ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: Blu Jam, Du-Par's, Hugo's Restaurant, Larchmont Bungalow, Los Angeles, Square One Dining, The Griddle Cafe

THE COMFORT DINER’S RED FLANNEL HASH

I love diners. I love breakfast in diners. Not tablecloth places that call themselves diners, or the chic “retro”ones that put in a jukebox and red-plastic booths and make believe they are authentic. No, I like real, old-fashioned, Formica-table and tile-floor, long-established neighborhood diners that are warm and friendly and offer food like mom might […]

¶ Posted 26 September 2011 † Susan Manlin Katzman § BREAKFAST § RECIPES § RESTAURANTS § TRAVEL ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: beets, corned beef, NYC, The Comfort Diner

HEATHROW AIRPORT BREAKFAST

FULL ENGLISH BREAKFAST AT V BAR Airport food can be dismal, but Heathrow’s new Terminal 5 provides some far-better-than-average options. I found one of the simpler outlets, V Bar, while trudging through the terminal at 3:30 a.m. Midwest time, transferring from a Chicago-to-Rome-through-London flight. “Morning special,” lured the chalkboard outside the bar, “Bacon sandwich on […]

¶ Posted 14 September 2009 † Susan Manlin Katzman § AIRPORTS § BREAKFAST § ENGLAND § LONDON § RESTAURANTS § TRAVEL ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: English, Heathrow, Terminal 5, V Bar