Bea’s Crawfish Boil
Hundreds of alien-like crustaceans were crawling around in the trays in front of me, pincers waving in the air, tiny legs clicking all over each other’s backs and bodies…
Author Jackie Lee
New York Food Crawl
Everybody from Frank Sinatra to Jay-Z has extolled the virtues and bemoaned the vices of New York City. This being my first trip to NYC, I decided to spend a day traipsing across town eating everything in sight.
Eastern Standard, Boston
Eastern Standard is apparently the restaurant that the big-name chefs go to when they’re in Boston. The food is said to be innovative and consistently good, ever changing but always memorable. Jackie investigates…
Taco Haven, Texas
Taco Haven, San Antonio, is not a place you want to stand out when you are British, Asian, and photographing the food. It is, however, a place to enjoy barbacoa, aka cow’s face. So Jackie sets down her camera, and tucks in.
National Portrait Restaurant
As a school girl I was extraordinarily lucky. My passion for the arts was cultivated…
The Salt Lick, Texas
The Salt Lick in Driftwood, Texas, the infamous barbecue joint, serving up smoky, tender, flaking pieces of meat and tangy beans to red-faced, beer-swilling men, and Jackie Lee. Welcome to Woman vs. Food…
The Cottage, La Jolla, California
Jackie doesn’t like breakfast. Except when she’s dining at The Cottage in San Diego’s La Jolla, where Californian and Mexican cuisines blend seamlessly to create a breakfast of champions. Oh yes, Jackie likes those breakfasts.
The Portland Food Cart Crawl
Our ravenous globetrotting feeder, Jackie Lee, explores the world of food carts in Portland, Oregon, on a Food Cart Crawl with the mission to eat as much as she can in one day; to go big or to go home…
Incanto, San Francisco
When you receive an invite to partake in a feast entitled ‘Leg of the Beast’ at San Francisco’s Incanto, you would have to be incredibly foolish, or a vegetarian, to turn it down. Luckily, Jackie Lee is neither…
Alinea, Chicago
Alinea in Chicago is one of the world’s best restaurants. Marcus Wareing once told our Editor that he had “the best meal of my life” there. On hearing this anecdote, Jackie Lee couldn’t resist a hop across the Atlantic to see what the fuss is about…