Grand Case, St. Martin: The Gourmet Capital of the Caribbean
In Fall 2009, my husband Steve and I thought we had it all figured out. Beautiful house in Berkeley, the requisite yellow lab, great technology careers... and I was pregnant. Then the fourth miscarriage hit. It broke our hearts. We needed time to heal. A break. From everything.     Seeking comfort in the form of sun, sand and food, we elected to hunker down for a couple months and let the world go by. Our criteria were simple: warm sun, clear water, pristine sand and a plethora of high-quality restaurants. Enter Grand Case, St. Martin. With 30+ amazing restaurants, ranging from high-end gourmet to local BBQ and everything in between, Grand Case’s reputation as the Gourmet Capital of the Caribbean is well deserved.     It worked. We lived in the moment and ate like gods. We over-indulged. We bronzed ourselves well past the recommended allowance, letting the warmth heal us. We met joyful people pursuing non-traditional lives... and realized life doesn’t have to be linear.     When we returned, instead of returning to our old life, I quit my job. I created a Facebook fan page for St. Martin. Within only a couple weeks, I had attracted 25,000+ fans (http://bit.ly/Lucindas_List_Fans), making it the largest St. Martin fan page out there.     I decided to create a guide book: "Grand Case: the Gourmet Capital of the Caribbean." I wanted it to be the kind of guide my husband and I wished we’d found before we went to St. Martin: consistent, in-depth and independent. A guide like the wildly successful "Hawaii Revealed" series, where you connect with the writer and their personal experiences, while at the same time get the insider scoop; a cross between travel writing and a guidebook.     We hope St. Martin is only the beginning of our travels!