Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 9: Vacation Eating
Traveling makes me anxious, so I usually end up unconsciously eating a lot when we go away.
In San Francisco or Paris or Chicago this can cause me to go on binges. I make up lists of foods and places I want to try and then do my best to check off every place on the list. I convince myself that, since there's no guarantee I will return to a city, I must try everything. No matter if it takes eating half a dozen meals a day.
But in Lisbon, it turns out that it's hard to compile a list of places and foods I absolutely must try. In fact, it turns out that in Lisbon it's hard to find much of anything delicious. The city is beautiful and the people are incredibly friendly, but even armed with advice from many serious eaters and from three thick guidebooks, we haven't had one meal here that I can unequivocally say I would come back for. Now I know it's difficult to condemn the food of any large city after being there three days, but consider the evidence.
