Is this your ultimate dream? To love food, enjoy it, and still remain fit and healthy. For most of us, that’s what it remains–-a dream. It’s doubly challenging for me, because as a food critic I have eaten my way through 40 food books and countless food columns. The truth is I don’t “eat to live” “I live to eat” (literally too). So, it’s been a continuous quest over 15 years, researching and writing weekly health columns, and scripting, directing, producing and anchoring Health Today, a weekly TV show. Through it all, continuously checked out many a spa, worldwide.
So I’m filtering my decades-long global spa cuisine experiences in this limited space. Each one is distinct from the other: While the Italian Palace Merano is housed in a palace, the Austro-German Lanserhof is a squat minimalistic