By Amanda Black

Hello and welcome to a new year!

The Global Culinary Tour has been rather quiet lately. As usual, I fell into the trap of spending my time and energy getting ready for the holidays. I spent the last few weeks shopping, wrapping, cleaning, cooking, driving and basically doing everything but writing. But of course food is a vital part of holiday traditions, so I did spend some time in the culinary realm. I spent two days cooking Christmas dinner for the extended family and hours cleaning it up, and it took an hour to eat. Of course it was worth it. We had some traditional favorites around the table, and everything tasted great.

Now it's a new year, and of course we're all thinking about eating healthier. After reaching the low point of candy for lunch one day, it won't take much to get healthier. At least the peanut butter cups had some protein right? I suspect there are a lot of other passengers in this boat with me.

I’m looking forward to another year or blogging about culinary travel trends. Where do you think we’ll go?

In these early days of January, it’s hard to say. But I’m looking forward to the journey.

 

Extremely helpful atrlice, please write more.

I think culinary travel trends will skyrocket. The projectile will have a homing signal locked onto Sandra Lee's "semi-homemade" base of operations. We've hit the warp-speed button in 2012 and are on target for safe landing at the planet of comfort foods.