For several years while in Buenos Aires I used to read about the adventures of Layne Mosler, the Taxi Gourmet. They say that every good blog has some sort of gimmick, or core point of view, and hers was definitely something different – she’d hop into a cab and basically tell the cab driver to… Read More NYC Whirlwind Day 5
Plan A was for dim sum yesterday noonish. But then I spotted a poster for the Turkish Days Festival on 41st Street and thought that might be a fun place to start – depending on how good and how much food there was, we could move on to dim sum or not. Turned out not,… Read More NYC Whirlwind Day 4
So here, the things about the whole Twitter/Facebook come join me for lunch or dinner if you’re hanging around and feel like it. If you go to the trouble to tell me you’re coming, come, especially since most of you who are responding are friends that I’ve known for years. I didn’t fly up from… Read More NYC Whirlwind Day 3
So I’m standing in front of the restaurant, waiting for my lunch companions (who never showed – casting a slight pall on my facebook/twitter dining experiment – though I quickly got over it and will forge ahead), and people keep coming up to the corner and snapping photos of the place. A couple of tour… Read More NYC Whirlwind 2
New York City – I’m not going to do any long-winded reviews while here, just highlight whatever stands out on any given day. I’m in town for a variety of business and personal reasons, so it’s not going to be the most social of my visits – though I’m posting “where I’m having lunch/dinner” notes… Read More Starting the NYC Whirlwind
“Vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” – Robert Orben, magician and comedy writer Carmelo, Uruguay – So those of you who follow along things like our Twitter feed and Facebook page know that Henry and I slipped away last weekend for my birthday. It was some much needed… Read More Downtime
“At the peremptory request and desire of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and now for the last 9 years and 10 months past of S. F., Cal., declare and proclaim myself Emperor of these U. S.; and in virtue… Read More The Empire of Cal-Mex Cooking
“If there is anywhere a place that encompasses the perfect match of climate, soil, costs, human resources, and, above all, freedom for creativity and minimal bureaucracy to hinder the genuine development of a new and exceptional viticulture, that place is undoubtedly Argentina…Argentina’s potential for wine making is amazing and the diversity of its future prospects… Read More Pretty Flowers?