I love when vacations are not only wonderful fun, but also wonderfully delicious.
I mean sunsets and beaches are nice and all…
…but a vacation isn’t something truly memorable unless there’s food. Lucky for me, the Caribbean was full of food, and most of it was fantastic.
From fine French in a dining room at sea…
…to Mexican shrimp fresh off the shrimp boat.
We had a food adventure at every turn–including an encounter with raw cacao beans!
And don’t even get me started on our port city–the beautiful–and eternally delicious–Big Easy!
All in all it made for one very happy food blogger, and one amazingly memorable vacation.
By the end, Noel had declared it the best birthday gift ever, and I knew that I had left a part of my heart in the Western Caribbean. Over the next couple of weeks I want to take you to those places to visit those pieces of my heart I left behind, but I had to start out with the food. Because food is what has brought us together, and it really was at the center of our journey. So enjoy the visual feast!
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Glad you’re back, Beth!
Looking forward to seeing the beautiful photos. It will push us all towards warmer days.
We love Visual Feasts! Bring it on! We are so glad you had a good birthday!
~kristin and chris ann
Beth, I can’t wait to see more of your trip. And I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that it took your ship 12 hours to get up the Mighty Mississippi.
Wendi-I’m still a little in shock at that 12 hours too. This picture–http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mississippi_delta_from_space.jpg–shows the reason. The boat had to make it all the way down that lowest prong on the left, making the total travel distance from NOLA to the Gulf over 100 miles! Who would have thought?
Glad you had such a great time!! I agree, the food is usually the focal point of our vacations too. If we are in fried chicken country, by God we’ll have fried chicken!
Looking forward to your future recap!
Everything looks great. Great food, great setting and great company.
So if my math is right, you creeped along at about 8 miles an hour. Hope the bar was open at least.
Wendi–on a cruise boat there are three things that are always open–the bar, the casino, and the bingo parlor!! It was actually really neat doing most of the Mississippi ride though, because it wasn’t sailing past solid land, but rather past lots of little islands, other boats, and oil platforms. And it was a NARROW little channel!
Food adventures are always the best kind of adventures!!!
Beautiful pictures!!
I can’t wait to see what the Caribbean like, I’ve never been. Also trying a raw cacao bean is really cool!
The raw cacao had a really interesting taste. It was sweet and a little tangy. Hard to believe it becomes chocolate!
Superb….we need more details. Places. Dishes….more, more, more!!!!!!!!!