Las Vegas has a strong Italian-American heartbeat and I’m not talking about the mob era, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, or The Venetian-Palazzo, Caesars Palace and Bellagio resorts. First landing…
Jeff Heilman
Jeff Heilman is an award-winning multi-genre journalist and video producer who has covered the global travel, and hospitality and meetings industries since 2004. He has been a regular contributor to Passport since 2011.
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Forever famous by association, here are an array of hotels, restaurants and bars from TV and movies that are perfect for feeding your film-loving head. To this day, tourists run…
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My first taste of culinary San Antonio, on a hot summer afternoon in 2008, was a life-saving prickly pear margarita and the famed tableside-made guacamole at “Texas bistro” Boudro’s on…
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My recent five-city pizza tour of the Northeast, the cradle of the immigrant experience for Italians in America along with the Albanians, Lebanese, Greeks and other groups that later joined…
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More than 50 locally owned cafés, restaurants, bars, and breweries beckon within the cobblestone corridors of the Winnipeg, Canada arts and culture Exchange District, one of North America’s best-preserved heritage…
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World Eats — New York Castles and Mansions Offer Epicurean Escapes
In 1785, George Washington praised New York as the “Seat of the Empire” in a letter to New York City Mayor James Duane. Around a century later, the Empire State…
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In September 2022, I attended the two-day Plant Based World Expo North America, the official tradeshow of the Plant Based Foods Association, at New York City’s Javits Center. Attracting 232…
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Traveling Gourmet — My Favorite Middle Eastern And Mediterranean Restaurants in the USA
Atypical of most Middle Eastern restaurants, the dessert menu was diverse and innovative, including the Rose Clove Chocolate Donuts and Cinnamon Star Anise Crème Brulee. In Curb Your Enthusiasm’s season…
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As food is the way to a lover’s heart, it is also a recipe for travel romance. Culinary tourists can go it alone based on Google finds or word of…
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Guided tours are also part of their diverse content. “During the pandemic, which froze our global trips program, searches of our database spiked,” says Thuras. Dylan Thuras is co-founder and…