Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Here we are for the August World Wine Travel event. Deanna of Wineivore is hosting. You can read her invitation here . She has us looking at sparkling Australian wines as well as wines from Tasmania.  If you are joining us early enough, jump in to a live conversation with us on Twitter. Follow the hashtag #WorldWineTravel and be sure to add that to anything you tweet so we can see it. Here's the line-up of the articles for this event...  Lori is tasting Tasmanian Sparkling and Egg Rolls at Exploring the Wine Glass Camilla showcases Tasmania + Hawaii: Celebrating with an Island Wine and Island Eats at Culinary Adventures with Camilla Jeff shares how we can Discover Rutherglen Stickies at Food Wine Click! Robin pairs  Sparkling Wine from Jansz Tasmania and a Tassie-inspired seafood curry pie at Crushed Grape Chronicles Kat has a Surprise! South Australia Pét-Nat is on the Rise at The Corkscrew Concierge Susannah explores Tasmanian Chardonnay at Avvinare Deanna pops an...

I know what you're thinking because I was thinking the same thing: where the heck is Kiribati? Is that even a real country?!? But that's all part of this cooking around the world adventure - learning for the entire family. The boys didn't even blink; they just pulled out their atlases and went on the hunt. Some Fun Facts... Kiribati is not a single island. It's comprised of 32 atolls and 1 (actual) island halfway between Hawaii and Australia in the South Pacific Ocean.  Kiribati used to span the International Date Line until, in 1995, the government voted to move the line eastward, so that the entire country would occupy the same time zone. With the new millennium in 2000, Kiribati was publicized as the first land on Earth to welcome in the year. Kiribati remains a very traditional culture. Despite colonial occupation, its people continue to thrive on fish, breadfruit and coconut and live in traditional raised thatched dwellings. The I-Kiribati h...

Our Cooking Around the World Adventure continues...to Croatia which was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire until the end of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known as Yugoslavia after 1929. And it remained part of Yugoslavia until the bloody, high-intensity civil war in 1991 when Croatia severed its ties and declared its independence. Some interesting numbers about this Mediterranean-climated country: it has almost 6000 km of coastline and its islands make up more than three times the area of its mainland. With that in mind, we traveled to one of the Croatian islands via tabletop when Riley made a dish that originated on the island of Hvar. I found Hvar called 'the island of lavender and sunshine' or 'the crown jewel of the Dalmatian coast.' It sounds deliciously relaxing with its vibrant patches of lavender and rosemary carpeting the hillsides. So, while I toyed with making a Croatian paprikash, the Chicken in Lavender and...