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Cook good food at home.

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Toast Trip: India 2025

Toast Trip: India 2025

A Culinary and Cultural Adventure in South India

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Toast Trip: Southern France 2024

Toast Trip: Southern France 2024

Southern France at its Best

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Toast Trip to Collioure last week...
A gathering of 6 intrepid, fun people came to explore the Mediterranean Pyrenees with me. Staying at the serene @hotel_lesrochesbrunes, my guests met weavers and cooks, a winemaker and artists, a vinegar maker and

Mama. She left us one year ago today. God, did we love her. Picture taken by @catherinekarnow at my wedding, 1995. With all her cubs.

Wild lavender from Mont Hélène, recent food, friends visiting…and a few renovation updates. The kitchen is taking shape! Our bedroom awaits us. And the moon came up full beyond the fig tree.

Monday lunch, Mediterranean oysters from Leucate, followed by a naked swim.

Plastic waste. I collected every piece of packaging from my recent flight on @americanair and photographed it once home. This was a transatlantic journey on a 777-300, a full flight with 381 passengers. Multiply this garbage haul by 381… 😬

This is where you’ll stay. A tranquil, small hotel in a town known for its artistic past. Collioure is where the Fauvist painters came for the light and stayed for the quiet, fishing village vibes.

Wake up to a copious breakfast. Make your way