Robin Benzle food and travel

NEW TRAVEL VIDEOS! Click here for a peek at Paula Deen's homes in Georgia and a quick boat ride to the remote Isle of Hope near Savannah.

Imagine J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue being played on a spectacular pipe organ (4,668 pipes!) in a beautiful cathedral in Kalocsa, Hungary. Click here for the experience (and crank up the volume...).

For a visit to the most colorful animal and craft market in South America (Otavalo, Ecuador), click here.

Travel Pic of the Day

Clear Lake, Colorado (outside the town of Ouray). Complete silence and beauty about 12,000 feet up into the mountains.

Chow Time

every friday

Rich, dense and moist Cheddar cheese cornbread.

Coming soon to Chow Time: The St. Patrick's Day Show (with a great Irish potato casserole); a pork recipe that will make you laugh; a special show filmed in San Francisco...

Click on 'Chow Time Videos' above if you want to know what to do with quail eggs; if you've never had Halloumi cheese; if you want to spend a day on the ocean with a shrimper; if you want to drink cocktails in Ecuador; and if you want to see what it's like to have breakfast with the Benzles (to name a few).

A sure-fire way to test for sweet, ripe melons.

Break the melon open on the edge of a counter at the grocery store. Taste it. If it's sweet, buy it. If it's not, give the smashed melon to the produce guy and say, "This rolled off the pile and nearly killed me."

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