Malia Yoshioka is a freelance Food & Travel Writer and ESL Tutor from Hawaii. She's slowly eating her way around the world, 43 countries and counting so far! Get behind the scenes news, travel tips and the best food stories from around the web in her weekly Savor the Journey newsletter.
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Kalimera, Kalamata! 🇬🇷
Published 3 months ago • 4 min read
Happy Aloha Friday!
Welcome to this week's roundup of tasty tidbits specially curated for you from Hawaii to Istanbul and everywhere in between...
☀ Kalimera from Kalamata, I’ll be here for the next few days for a campaign called #MyPeloponneseVibe. As you might have guessed, MY Peloponnese Vibe revolves around food, language and connecting with locals! It’s my second time in Kalamata, and I’ve spent a good deal of my trip in the old town area around their wonderful open market. I was joined by Maria Monastirioti fromMama’s Flavours, who generously took the time to introduce me to some of the amazing producers and small businesses in the market and around the old town. Here’s a quick preview with some Greek language tips for market shopping, straight from an expert (and a hint that I’ll be dusting off my old YouTube channel for more local expert interviews!). I'd love it if you'd subscribe for updates!
As usual, I've been trying to get as many local recommendations as I could for what types of home-style dishes I should try. Today I've (so far unsuccessfully) been trying to hunt down a soup called yuvarklakia. Wish me luck with my last two days! 😋
If you'd like to follow along, check out the "🇬🇷Peloponnese" highlight on my Instagram. I've met so many amazingly passionate people on this trip, I can't wait to share their stories with you.
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Each year in April, parks around Istanbul come alive with color thanks to the millions of tulips planted for the annual Istanbul Tulip Festival! It will be interesting to see the timing of the blooms this year, given the wild fluctuations in temperature over the past few weeks—it's been unseasonably warm the past few days, with the possibility of snow in the coming week!
Have you seen Antoni Porowski’s new show on National Geographic called No Taste Like Home? I love the focus on heritage travel and discovering your roots through food! If you’ve seen the show, what did you think? Have you ever considered a trip to trace your genealogy?
It's official, the EES and ETIAS travel authorizations that were set to be required for travelers entering the EU have been postponed once again until 2026.
The USDA has cancelled contracts which allowed local farmers to supply schools and food banks with fresh, nutritious local produce. This impacts both the farmers and the recipients in the vast majority of states.
If you’re upset about these or (any number of other issues) and feeling helpless, I can understand the desire to avoid news in general and I hope this newsletter and the dream of travel can be a bright spot in your inbox. ☀ However, if you feel moved to do something, one action you can take is to call your congressional representatives and urging them to act on issues that matter to you. Use one issue per call, there’s a whole list available at 5calls.org.
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Malia Yoshioka is a freelance Food & Travel Writer and ESL Tutor from Hawaii. She's slowly eating her way around the world, 43 countries and counting so far! Get behind the scenes news, travel tips and the best food stories from around the web in her weekly Savor the Journey newsletter.
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