Ferran Adrià of elbulli, once known as the world’s most famous restaurant, uses a tiny flake of a certain salt to dab on his oysters. The Queen of England and her son William have been known to also use this special salt at events as important at May’s royal wedding. […]
After a flight made much more pleasant by a serendipitous upgrade to business class, which gave me a night’s sleep on a flat bed, I’ve spent the day here in Wales. I have given up trying to actually pronounce the names of the places I’ve seen. We are staying in […]
Tonight I’ll board a 777 and fly to Manchester England, where tomorrow morning I’ll join several other travel bloggers and begin a trip through Wales. I haven’t ever been there before and the focus of the journey is a culinary one. So we will meet chefs, taste many different foods […]
Los Angeles will celebrate on October 9 by shutting down ten miles or normally congested streets. Why? To turn all of this inner city space into a car-free, safe, family-friendly place for exploring the city from a new perspective and at a leisurely pace. No cars, just bikes, sneakers, stilts, […]
I wound my way up North Leverett road last night, my destination was Wendell Depot, where I met a new date at the Deja Brew Pub and Cafe. The small pub consists of a narrow bar area with booths and a more spacious back room. The bands set up in […]
Now that I’ve been officially single for five months, I have learned a bit about the ins and outs of a few popular dating sites. Below is some of what I learned. The first thing is, there are two main choices for those who are interested in finding dates online. […]
The first gravestones in New England were simple rectangles. Then in the 1720s, death’s head began to be featured on the tops of the stones. The figures would usually be graced with lines, as if they were ascending up into heaven. Forty years later, the motif du jour was winged […]
One of the first things I learned from my Texas-born host during my visit was that here in Texas, there are two sports that matter– Football, and spring football. The Dallas Cowboys are revered, and yet nobody expects anything less than a final Superbowl victory, every year. No second place, […]
Texas is bigger and badder than my creaky little old state of Massachusetts. Here are just some of the things that I found down here in Plano that I’ve never seen in the Bay State. Well, at least not in the Happy Valley. * Mega churches: We passed a gigantic […]
“One, Two, Three, Four, Five…BURN!” shouted the radio DJ, and all of sudden the skyline was illuminated with the fiery glow of a dozen hot air balloons aglow in the Texas sky. The crowd up on the hill crackled with camera flashes, cheers went up, and as each balloon randomly […]
I’m up at the crack of madness this morning, since the goal is to catch the sunrise from aloft in a hot air balloon. Yesterday I flew here to Plano, Texas, and saw that the ground was mostly brown from the window of the packed plane. After just a few […]
After a relaxing night of sleep in my own comfy bed, Croatia keeps bobbing back up in my mind. What it like there? One thing that again and again you think of is how old and how new the country is. There was no country of Croatia until 1991, when […]