| It never fails to happen in my family. We're on | | | | senses. This helps to isolate those harder to |
| vacation, traveling by car, when we come across | | | | recognize herbs, which become more difficult to |
| a cute little restaurant. Maybe it's a "Mom and | | | | identify when they mingle. You can also take |
| Pop" restaurant, or maybe it's a regional favorite, | | | | notes about what flavors you taste. |
| but either way we are almost always guaranteed | | | | Famous and attractive like its name; Beverly Hills |
| a good meal. | | | | Plaza Hotel is set in a garden of tranquility and |
| And, sure enough, we just had the greatest | | | | peace. It occupies a privileged position on the |
| chicken fried steak or pecan pie that we've ever | | | | extravagant Wilshire Boulevard. Situated in the |
| tried. How do we recreate these recipes? Local | | | | heart of Rodeo Drive, Century City and West |
| restaurant recipes can be hard to come by, and | | | | Village, Beverly Hills Plaza Hotel provides you easy |
| may be rather tricky to recreate, especially if | | | | access to a wide assortment of restaurants and |
| "Mom and Pop" didn't leave any written recipes | | | | shops. A golf course and spa center is present |
| for their now famous dishes. | | | | for the sake of relaxation of corporate and leisure |
| What have we learned in our traveling culinary | | | | travelers alike. Free Internet access and on-site |
| experiments? One trick to recreating a dish is to | | | | restaurants provide you scrumptious food and |
| take some leftovers "to go." Once you have a | | | | access to the World Wide Web whenever you |
| bite or two of chicken fried steak away from the | | | | please. |
| restaurant, and you're not so hungry, you can | | | | Ask all your family members to take turns trying |
| take your time and figure out some of the | | | | to guess ingredients. Brainstorming ingredients with |
| flavors. | | | | more people will yield more results than one |
| All the other aromas wafting from the | | | | person can alone. Besides, its fun - sort of like |
| restaurant’s kitchen are not inundating your | | | | show-and-tell, only it's taste-and-tell! |