2019-01-25 20:48
Flying north from Pheonix to Salt Lake City, I found myself in an aisle seat over the wing, limiting my view to a craned-neck peer between my seat-mates tablets at what would have been my f… Read More
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2018-08-14 01:34
“To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.”
– Petrarch
By mid-morning, the air was vibrating almost audibly, the cicadas had exhausted themselves and gone… Read More
2017-10-18 14:40
Among numismatists this tiny cluster of islands, quite literally specks in the vast azure of the Pacific, has an outsize reputation, for it is among the smallest nations to produce its own… Read More
2017-04-12 15:26
It’s sorta soupy when made traditionally.“Maybe later we get togezza and drink som schnapps, ja?” wasn’t exactly the invitation I most felt like accepting that mornin… Read More
2017-01-11 20:46
Friends of this occasional blog may recall that I am of somewhat idiosyncratic tastes, so learning that the origins of this post lie in a youth choir’s a-cappella rendition of Astor P… Read More
2016-12-16 22:13
Most of us would agree that the things we have made ourselves tend to be the things that we are most proud of. For example, in spite of the fact – or perhaps because of it – tha… Read More
2016-07-19 21:25
“The beauty of Jerusalem in its landscape can be compared with that of Toledo.”
– Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana
Perched above its bend in the Tagus, with sheer drops on… Read More
2016-07-19 21:25
“The beauty of Jerusalem in its landscape can be compared with that of Toledo.”
– Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana
Perched above its bend in the Tagus, with sheer drops on… Read More
2016-05-19 19:35
Towards the end of an otherwise very enjoyable dish of Cantonese-style spicy duck tongues at Congee Village on New York’s Lower East Side a few years ago, I found myself asking the in… Read More
2016-03-24 16:18
It must go down among the biggest porkies a man ever told a woman – right after Christopher Columbus telling his mother he wouldn’t be long; he and a few friends were just takin… Read More
2016-02-16 15:47
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
– Don Quixote de La Mancha
I have been told that the Inuit have more than 30 words for snow and a similar number of descriptors for the… Read More
2016-01-18 17:36
In 1994, and after six playfully-humorous seasons of barbershop-based banter, fans of British-Caribbean sitcom “Desmond’s” were disappointed when the show was discontinued… Read More
2016-01-04 16:38
Five years in the making, and after at least six months’ meticulous planning, this was not an auspicious start. Within twenty minutes of claiming our luggage off the futuristically-pl… Read More
2015-09-03 13:01
An old joke tells of a Philadelphia area man who, panicking when his doctor diagnosed him with incurable cancer and predicted he had six months to live, begged the medic for help. “Is… Read More
2015-05-02 12:37
When the coughing and farting of the antique truck had rumbled away, between the rustlings of birds pecking grubs among the dry plane leaves, you could just make out the pop and thwack of r… Read More
2015-01-27 12:03
As an icebreaker at the beginning of the birthing classes we took in preparation for the arrival of our first-born, participants were divided into male and female groups and invited to sit… Read More
2014-12-24 14:18
For much of what we are accustomed to seeing around Christmas, the candles, trees, the mistletoe, the decorations, and many of the songs, we need to thank the Germans. Not specifically thos… Read More
2014-12-10 01:00
Since we defected to the suburbs, started going to bed at 9.30 and became generally boring and matronly, one aspect of the luxury of space afforded by our new location that we have enjoyed… Read More
2014-11-19 17:02
If the path from high finance executive to cookbook author isn’t a well-beaten one, then the path from stock-broker to market stall-holder is even more poorly trod. But, for Oxford-ed… Read More
2014-10-09 13:47
Of all the miracles of modern science that we have witnessed over recent years, few have received as little attention as the 2009 announcement by the International Potato Center in Lima, Pe… Read More
2014-09-17 15:58
“There are more pizzerias in Buenos Aires than in Naples and Rome combined.”
– Ernesto Sabato, Heroés y Tumbas
In his book “I’m a Stranger Here Myself&r&helli…Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
With some cookbooks, you just open them, find something that looks good and go straight into your kitchen and start cooking. Charcutería – The Soul of Spain, the new book from J… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
On our first afternoon in Buenos Aires, as we lazily wandered the Palermo district, stupefied by an overnight flight and a filling lunch featuring our first Argentine steak and an immoderate… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I know that I am the best cook(er) in the world because my three year-old son tells me so when I make him fridge surprise for dinner. (The surprise being that there is anything remotely edib… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
While awake in the middle of the night, hoping like hell one’s infant will go back to sleep soon, one experiences a range of emotions, including, but not limited to, joy, frustration… Read More
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