This is part of a series of Q&A's about cooking on vacation. The complete list of posts in this series is available here.
Luisa Weiss is a New York writer currently based in Berlin, and the author of the wonderful blog The Wednesday Chef, which documents her cooking life with inimitable verve and style. She was kind enough to answer my questions just as she was nearing the deadline for the manuscript of her much-anticipated first book, tentatively titled My Berlin Kitchen.
Here she tells us about the Earl Grey in her luggage, mother-daughter grilling, and cooking one's own catch.
Are you taking a vacation this summer? Will you have a chance to cook while there?
My husband and I are going on our honeymoon in September. We're staying at a cousin's house on an island in Greece for a week before heading on to a few other stops including Athens. While we're on the island, we'll definitely be cooking at least once a day. I'm excited to see what the produce markets are like there and I can't wait to try some of Greece's bitter greens. It's tough finding really good vegetables in Berlin, where I live, and I have a weakness for bitter greens. Also fish! And wild oregano! I'm hungry.
Are there utensils or ingredients you always take with you when you go on vacation? If so, what are they? If not, what do you unfailingly regret not taking?
I bring loose Earl Grey tea, because I love it for breakfast in the morning and I usually bring one sharp knife, just in case the place I'm staying at doesn't have one. Otherwise, for me, vacation is about relaxing and letting go, and that means relaxing about the cooking environment, too.
