I love food. I love travel. I love how the two intermix and intertwine. How you can get the feel of a place, a sense of the spirit and culture, by experiencing local tastes, flavors, and scents. I feel like I haven’t truly traveled somewhere until I’ve savored it.

When I met my husband, however, a new and more complex consideration of food, travel, culture, and identity soon became deeply intriguing to me. My husband also loves to travel, and, Baruch HaShem, to eat, as much as I do. However, I am a Jew who is relatively new to the intricacies of Kashrut – I grew up eating Hebrew National hot dogs, schnitzel, and knishes, but had never heard the words “parve” and “fleishig” – while he is a Jew who keeps strictly Kosher. When we started traveling together, I wanted to make sure that we both still got authentic eating experiences that were resonant of the places we were visiting. I spent hours researching, googling, and reading reviews so I could find sumptuous, unique, memorable, and community-reflective Kosher meals that we could enjoy together while traveling. So that we could savor another part of our lives together.

This Kosher food deep dive and research has now become one of my favorite parts of travel planning. For each trip we take, I map out, delve into, read reviews on, and ogle pictures of the types of foods and locales that will be available to us.

I created this blog for three reasons. One, because I want to make it easier for traveling Jews to find delicious, fresh, and local Kosher foods, wherever they go. I don’t want the worry of being unable to easily find Kosher food, or to fully experience a locale, to act as a barrier or deterrent to traveling. Also, while I enjoy my pre-travel research, it is time consuming, and it is always necessary to consult a plethora of sources, from google maps, to each unique restaurant website, other blogs, yelp and google reviews, Chabad and Synagogue pages, and Kashrut certification agencies. I’d love to become a one-stop shop for travelers and adventurers ready to embark on their next journey.

Secondly, I want to showcase the incredible cuisines and gathering spaces that our community has created all around the world! I have had so many amazing experiences trying out Kosher foods wherever we go, and I am so proud to be a part of the vibrant and strong Jewish community and culture.

Finally, I decided to create this blog because… it’s fun! I get to travel and try foods and truly savor them. I get to take pictures and remember the feelings, the tastes, the scents, the colors. I get to re-live every bite by writing about it. And I get a running log of my favorite places to eat, just so I can go back and try again.