New York City – My friend John has just accepted the position of general manager of I Trulli, 122 East 27th Street, which has always been one of my favorite Italian restaurants in town. The thing I like most about it is that it’s “honest food” and the restaurant relies on the quality of the… Read More The White Cones of Puglia
New York City – I was chatting via e-mail with a friend of mine recently about my food writing adventures, and the possibility of some sort of future book. We got to talking about books like Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence, and other such gems of travel writing that tend to… Read More Too Much Chianti
Intercourse, Pennsylvania – Catchy title, no? And sure to mess up a few filtering programs. I wonder if parents in Lancaster County are able to even use parental controls? Regardless, it was off to that far away land for a visit with one of my sisters and her family. The Amtrak ride was smooth and… Read More Intercourse and the Amish
New York City – After our little “Eve” pary having been such a classic of the genre, I accepted an invite from my friends Warner and Jean out in Brooklyn, for which I still have a valid travel visa, for a possibly slightly more traditional Xmas day dinner. I didn’t do any of the cooking,… Read More And a More Traditional Day of…
New York City – Holidays are great days to wander the streets of New York. And it’s kind of fun to approach it as a semi-tourist back in a city I lived in for 23 years, because I end up with a combination of knowing what I want to see and where to go to… Read More On the Streets of New York
New York City – A fair amount of Saturday was spent cooking, some sort of Eve-festival, which, I was sure was going to involve another Virgin. But no, in fact, today’s holiday wasn’t even mentioned, other than in passing. But we’d decided to invite a dozen or so friends over to eat fun food, drink… Read More Traditional Eve party…
New York City – Frank and I both like Indian food, and Buenos Aires currently has a dearth of really good Indian restaurants, though has a couple that are acceptable. A little exhausted from my travels and running errands for the day, I was far more in the mood for something local on the Upper… Read More Indian Festoon
Buenos Aires – Headed back to New York for a couple of weeks. Just a few random thoughts on the day of travel… While waiting for my flight in Ezeiza Airport, the major international airport in Buenos Aires, I thought I’d have a little sandwich and a Submarino. This is the local version of hot… Read More Tripping through the clouds