Erin spends the majority of her travel time scouting out the best eats in locations around the world. She has experience with everything from street food stalls to the world’s best Michelin-starred and World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Her passion for food doesn’t just lie in the goodness of the food itself, but she loves to learn about the history behind local dishes, sometimes even eventually attempting to recreate them at home.
To date, Erin has traveled to over 70 countries on six continents, primarily on food-centric trips. Her travels have taught her to be open, respectful, and to embrace seemingly “bizarre” foods that are important culinary staples in various cultures. Some of the more interesting dishes she’s tried include fish sperm sack in Taiwan and Japan, fruit bat in Palau, conch penis in Belize, fugu in Japan, cow udder in the Netherlands, and ant larvae in Mexico.
Meeting and Working with Notable Chefs
Erin’s passion for food and culinary history has led her to meet and work with some of the world’s best chefs. She is humbled by the people she’s met and the foods she has tried, and she hopes to continue telling important and lesser-known food stories that deserve to be shared with the world.
Some of her most memorable food-related encounters include:
- Meeting Chef Joan Roca at El Celler de Can Roca
- Being Chef Joël Robuchon’s personal guests at one of his restaurants in Paris
- Meeting Chef Narisawa at his namesake restaurant in Tokyo, Japan
- Becoming good friends with chef Daniel Negreira in Taiwan, who taught Erin everything about molecular gastronomy when she became the English language editor for two of his cookbooks
- Meeting Andrew Zimmern at the Los Angeles Travel Show
- Meeting Chef Rene Redzepi at his Noma pop up in Tulum
Erin’s Food Travel Blog
Erin’s blog, Our Tasty Travels, has received several notable mentions, including Top Blogs to Watch in 2013, Top 25 Culinary Travel Blogs by TripAdvisor’s FlipKey, and a finalist in Flight Centre UK’s Top 5 Food Travel Blogs.
