Author Archives: Judith Schrut

About Judith Schrut

Judith is a writer and journalist who writes about people, places, food, the arts and more. Born and raised in California, Judith has lived in her favourite city-- London-- for over 30 years. She writes and blogs regularly for Tikichris and American in Britain Magazine, creating enjoyable-to-read features, previews, reviews and interviews. She's also an experienced editor and researcher. More on Judith at californianinlondon.dudaone.com.

London’s Southbank Centre Re-opening Events

Posted on 2018-05-03 by Judith Schrut

Great things are happening down at the Southbank Centre, the UK’s largest art venue, where the Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room have just re-opened after a major facelift and refurb. Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Entertainment, Live Performance, London, Museums, Music, South London, Travel | Tagged Art, BARS, Belvedere Road, Brutalist, concert, festival, gallery, hayward gallery, Judith Schrut, London, movie, music, performance, Purcell Room, queen elizabeth hall, Sam Lee, SE1, south london, southbank centre, Travel | Leave a comment

2001: A Space Odyssey LIVE at Royal Festival Hall

Posted on 2018-05-02 by Judith Schrut

1968— Fifty years ago— was a landmark year for movies, the release year for a massive feast of films now considered classics: Oliver, the Odd Couple, Funny Girl, Yellow Submarine, Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, Rosemary’s Baby and 2001: A Space Odyssey, to name a handful. Expect plenty of Golden Anniversary screenings, fan events and limited-edition merchandise for each in the coming months. Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Entertainment, Live Performance, London, Movies, Music | Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, Belvedere Road, cinema, Entertainment, film, Judith Schrut, live performance, London, Movies, music, reviews, royal festival hall, SE1, south bank, south london, southbank, Travel, Лондон, لندن, ロンドン, 伦敦 | Leave a comment

Good Stuff #75

Posted on 2018-04-23 by Judith Schrut

Good stuff and lots of it! This latest list of good stuff comes from tikichris contributor Judith Schrut, who’s been visiting London’s 2018 Natural and Organic Products Show. Enjoy. Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Good Stuff, London, Shopping | Tagged beauty, Clearspring Organic Japanese Umami Paste, Food, good stuff, health, health food, healthy bread, ice cream, Judith Schrut, London, Natural, Natural and Organic Products Show, organic, quinoa, Shopping, Show | Leave a comment

Eat Puglia | Index

Posted on 2018-04-09 by Judith Schrut

Here’s an index for quick reference to all of Judith Schrut’s posts in her Eat Puglia series. Continue reading →

Posted in Drink, Eat Puglia, Food, Italy, Puglia, Restaurants, Travel, Uncategorized, Wine | Tagged Drink, Eat Puglia, Food, italian food, Italy, Judith Schrut, pasta, puglia, restaurants, Travel, wine | Leave a comment

Eat Puglia | Trattoria Terra Madre, Alberobello

Posted on 2018-04-07 by Judith Schrut

Terra Madre (Italian for Mother Earth) is a bio-organic farm-to-fork restaurant, one of a growing number of such eateries taking Italy’s culinary imagination by storm. It’s set in the traditional trulli village of Alberobello, with the restaurant itself made from four beautifully restored trulli cones. Continue reading →

Posted in Eat Puglia, Food, Italy, Puglia, Restaurants, Travel | Tagged Alberobello, antipasti, Eat Puglia, Farm to fork, Food, garden, Italy, Judith Schrut, organic, pasta, puglia, restaurants, salad, Terra Madre, Travel, vegetables | Leave a comment

Eat Puglia | Itria Bonta Cheese

Posted on 2018-04-05 by Judith Schrut

In charge at Itria Bontà nowadays is Giorgio Spalluti – aka “Big George”– who makes his cheese entirely by hand, using traditional methods learned from his father and grandfather with milk from the farm’s herd of Freesians. Continue reading →

Posted in Eat Puglia, Food, Italy, Puglia, Travel | Tagged burrata, capocollo, cheese, Eat Puglia, italian food, Italy, Itria Bonta, Judith Schrut, Martina Franca, mozzarella, puglia, pugliese, Travel | Leave a comment

Eat Puglia | I Pastini Winery

Posted on 2018-04-03 by Judith Schrut

Judith Schrut has a taste of wine at I Pastini Winery on her tour of Puglia. It’s approaching early evening in Puglia’s lush Itrian Valley and time to enjoy that important Italian tradition known as aperitivo– socialising over drinks and snacks … Continue reading →

Posted in Drink, Eat Puglia, Food, Italy, Puglia, Shopping, Travel, Wine | Tagged Drink, Eat Puglia, Food, grappa, I Pastini, Italy, Judith Schrut, Lorcorotondo, Martina Franca, organic winery, primitivo, puglia, tour, Travel, vinyard, wine, winery, winetasting | Leave a comment

Eat Puglia | Pescaria, Polignano a Mare

Posted on 2018-04-02 by Judith Schrut

It so happens that Polignano has many seafood restaurants, and choosing where to dine can be really difficult. We decided to follow the locals. And they were flocking to Pescaria. Continue reading →

Posted in Eat Puglia, Food, Italy, Puglia, Restaurants, Travel | Tagged bread, Eat Puglia, fish, Food, Italy, Judith Schrut, panini, Pescaria, Polignano a Mare, puglia, raw fish, restaurant, seafood, shellfish, Southern Italy, Travel | Leave a comment

(Northern) California Dreamin’ | Index

Posted on 2018-04-02 by Judith Schrut

Thanks for joining Judith Schrut on her Northern California road trip. Continue reading →

Posted in (Northern) California Dreamin', California, Food, road trip, Travel, USA | Tagged (Northern) California Dreamin', Berkeley, california, Food, Index, Judith Schrut, Mendocino, Monterey, Northern California, Redwood forest, road trip, san francisco, Travel | Leave a comment

Eat Puglia | Trattoria Il Brigante, Monopoli

Posted on 2018-04-01 by Judith Schrut

It was our first morning in the bright sunshine of Puglia– leaving snowbound Britain a few hours before on a crack-of-dawn budget flight from Stansted– so I was understandably eager to savour and set my teeth into the local cuisine. Continue reading →

Posted in Eat Puglia, Food, Italy, Puglia, Restaurants, Travel | Tagged antipasti, Eat Puglia, fish, italian seafood, Judith Schrut, liqueur, Monopoli, pasta, puglia, restaurant, sea urchin, seafood, shellfish, strascinate, Trattoria Il Brigante, Travel, Via Cavaliere | Leave a comment

(Northern) California Dreamin’ | Monterey Bay

Posted on 2018-04-01 by Judith Schrut

Judith Schrut spends the final part of her Northern California holiday chasing butterflies, sampling chowder and admiring marine life on the glorious Monterey Peninsula. Continue reading →

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Eat Puglia

Posted on 2018-03-31 by Judith Schrut

Certainly, with so much delicious food and drink to match picture postcard scenery and warm hospitality, your days in Puglia are sure to start and end with gorgeous gastronomy. Continue reading →

Posted in Drink, Eat Puglia, Food, Italy, Puglia, Restaurants, Travel, Wine | Tagged Drink, Eat Puglia, Food, italian food, Italy, Judith Schrut, pasta, puglia, restaurants, Travel, wine | Leave a comment

Pedals in Puglia

Posted on 2018-03-24 by Judith Schrut

The sun is out, the sea deep blue, your sexy (e)bike is beckoning you! Welcome to your first morning on Contrasts of Puglia, Headwater Holidays’ self-guided cycling tour on the heel of Italy’s “boot”. Continue reading →

Posted in Coffee, Drink, Food, Hotels, Italy, Puglia, Restaurants, Travel | Tagged coffee, cycling, Drink, e-bike, Food, Fun, Headwater Holidays, Italian coffee, Italy, Judith Schrut, masseria, Monopoli, olive oil, Polignano a Mare, puglia, self-guided, Travel, wine | Leave a comment

(Northern) California Dreamin’ | Berkeley

Posted on 2018-03-15 by Judith Schrut

We’re heading south now, down Highway 101 to Berkeley, home of the Free Speech Movement, the top public university in the USA and my Alma Mater. Continue reading →

Posted in (Northern) California Dreamin', Art, Books, California, Celebrities, Coffee, Drink, Food, Hotels, Movies, Museums, Pizza, road trip, Shopping, Travel, USA, Wine | Tagged Art, bart, bay area, Berkeley, cafe, california, Campanile, carillon, Cheeseboard Pizza, Chez Panisse, cinema, coffee, Drink, film, Free speech movement, head shop, hippie, Judith Schrut, movie, museum, Northern California, pizza, restaurants, Shopping, Travel, university, university of california, wine | Leave a comment

(Northern) California Dreamin’ | To the Redwood Forest

Posted on 2018-03-04 by Judith Schrut

Northern California’s incredible redwood forests are a natural wonder not to be missed. Trees growing here are amongst the world’s tallest and oldest, some over 380 feet high or 2,000 years old. Continue reading →

Posted in (Northern) California Dreamin', California, Drink, driving, Food, Hotels, Travel, USA | Tagged (Northern) California Dreamin', artisans, beer, cabins, california, camping, Food, Forest, Judith Schrut, Northern California, Redwood forest, Redwoods, Travel | Leave a comment

(Northern) California Dreamin’ | Mendocino

Posted on 2018-02-23 by Judith Schrut

Mendocino is coastal nature at its most glorious. If you enjoy the open air you’ll be spoilt for choice, with an abundance of forests, rivers, beaches, dunes, cliffs and canyons open to the public and impressively cared for by the California State Park Service. Continue reading →

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(Northern) California Dreamin’ | San Francisco

Posted on 2018-02-18 by Judith Schrut

San Francisco. It’s the City by the Bay, SF, the Golden City; creator of denim jeans, fortune cookies, mimosas, waterbeds, Rice-a-Roni and the Summer of Love; home to more than 50 hills, 14,000 Victorian houses, 200 landmark buildings and the only moving national monument in the USA (the cable car), and year after year voted America’s coolest city. Continue reading →

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(Northern) California Dreamin’ | Do, Stay, Eat, Play

Posted on 2018-02-12 by Judith Schrut

Every winter, thousands of bargain and sun-hungry Brits flock to Florida for a booster dose of light, sea, sand and a sheer break from relentless grey skies. But did you know that for just a few dollars more you can fly nonstop to Northern California instead? Continue reading →

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Dinner at Harry’s: Living La Dolce Vita

Posted on 2018-02-04 by Judith Schrut

In 1960, London moviegoers flocked to see the groundbreaking La Dolce Vita and experience Marcello Mastroianni’s search for love, happiness and ‘the sweet life’ on the exuberant streets of Rome. Nowadays one need not look further than its newly-opened namesake in Knightsbridge, Harry’s Dolce Vita restaurant. Continue reading →

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Ocean Liners: Speed and Style | Full Steam Ahead at the V&A

Posted on 2018-02-01 by Judith Schrut

Relive the ‘Golden Age’ of ocean travel at the Victoria & Albert Museum’s 2018 opening exhibition, Ocean Liners: Speed and Style. Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Design, London, Luxury, Museums, Travel | Tagged Art, cromwell road, cruise liner, Cruise ships, cruises, culture, design, fashion, Judith Schrut, kensington, London, luxury, luxury travel, museum, museums, ocean, Ocean liners, review, south kensington, steerage, style, SW7, SW7 2RL, Travel, V&A, V&A Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, victoria and albert museum, west london, Лондон, لندن, ロンドン, 伦敦 | Leave a comment

Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain

Posted on 2018-01-29 by Judith Schrut

Have an hour or so to spare and an interest in jazz, or just want to expand your London cultural horizons? If so, you’re sure to enjoy this bitesize exhibition and season of events, Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain. Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Design, Entertainment, Live Performance, London, Museums, Music | Tagged 2 Temple Place, Art, art deco, cocktails, design, Entertainment, exhibition, Family, free, jazz, Judith Schrut, kids, live performance, London, music, Temple Place, The Age of Jazz, Two Temple Place, Twotempleplace, WC2, WC2R 3BD | Leave a comment

Follow the Glitterball to ABBA: Super Troupers

Posted on 2017-12-14 by Judith Schrut

ABBA: Super Troupers is an immersive new exhibition which takes you on a journey back in musical time to the 1970s, when the Swedish pop phenomenon known as ABBA ruled the world. Continue reading →