World’s top gourmet stops for gastronauts
The travel guide Lonely Plant has assembled a list of 1,000 of the top places around the world to indulge in gastronomical delights. If your idea of a luxus getaway is eating your way through a Turkish Bazaar or hunting down the best truffles in Tuscany. You may want to pick up a copy of Lonely Planet’s 1000 Ultimate Sights (£15.99/$25) released on September 27. Until then here are some stops that made the list: – Gelateria di Piazza, San Gimignano, Italy for gelato – House of Master Belgian Chocolate-Makers, Brussels, Belgium for chocolate – Darjeeling, India for tea – Maison Mercier, Epernay, France, the champagne capital of the world […]
Buy a bomb, plant it in your garden and promote peace
The tastemakers at AHAlife, especially its founder Shauna Mei, like to think they are “driving conscious consumption.” The luxury leifestyle blog JustLuxe describes AHAlife “as a hybrid of Gilt Group and Ideal Bite” with a “unique social-media elements and marketing prescience” because all of the products are curated by influencers in the fashion, food, home and other categories, who make their selections because they believe in products, not because they’re being paid an assignment fee. And, now they want you to buy a bomb for peace — well, really spoon-shaped garden markers ($66) made from bombs dropped on Laos during the Vietnam conflict. The sale of these products benefits the […]