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 When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be.”
- Henry Van Dyke, short story writer, poet
San Rafael, Argentina - The next series of posts will be mostly alot of wine tasting and winery stuff - I [...]

 Under the… new hypothesis [of Continental Drift] certain geological concepts come to acquire a new significance amounting in a few cases to a complete inversion of principles, and the inquirer will find it necessary to re-orient his ideas. For the first time he will get glimpses… of a pulsating restless earth, all parts of which [...]

 Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts.”
- Roy Andries de Groot, gourmet, author
Buenos Aires - Here’s the thing. I’m wrong about things sometimes, often [...]

 It’s spring fever…. You don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
- Mark Twain, author
Buenos Aires - No question, spring has sprung in these parts. And what better place to stop off for lunch on a beautiful spring day in Palermo than [...]

 The years from 1924 to 1933 were quite prolific and exciting for Borges. He founded several more literary magazines with varying amounts of success, and he contributed a variety of pieces to many existing magazines, most notably Martin Fierro. Ironically, his contributions to this magazine were to take an unexpected turn when the editors of [...]

 Finally, when it had been erased from the map of the penninsular after some many centuries, the name ‘Langkasuka’ again appeared in our history when it was mooted by our founding fathers as a possible name for independent Malaya.”
- Sabri Zain, The Lost Kingdom of Langasuka
Buenos Aires - There was no reason in particular to [...]

 God gave man the challenge of raw materials — not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.”
- unknown
New York City - In the previous review I mentioned that tasting the crudo plate at Scarpetta [...]

 Roughly translated from the Italian, fare la scarpetta means to wipe your plate clean with a hunk of bread—a practice that, depending upon the culinary circles you travel in, is considered either a sign of bad breeding or a compliment to the chef.”
- Robin Raisfeld & Rob Patronite, NY Magazine
New York City - While [...]