We’re finally into the Ds! I guess this could have been one of the Cs, since there are two Congos, the Republic of the Congo and this one, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but I listed them in my little spreadsheet under their full names, so it’s just how it worked out. This one… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #47 – Dem. Rep. of the Congo
It’s only fair, after so many recent looks at the new wave of pizzerias, either Neapolitan style, or “artisanal” versions of either Argentine or Italian or New York or… style, that I offer some attention back on the local approach to pizza. Now, I’ve written both pros and cons over the years – early on,… Read More Pizzas of the Argentine
A last minute booking this weekend for a private dinner for two, celebrating a one year anniversary of dating. Planned for outdoors at our patio table, the weather turned cooler and damp, so we moved the place settings inside, turned on the background lighting, put a candle on the table, and away we went. A tiradito,… Read More A Romantic Eve
We’re off to Cyprus this time around, an island nation in the Mediterranean off the southern coast of Turkey and western coast of Syria. With a human presence that stretches back 12 millenia, it is the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean. At around 3600 square miles it’s midway in size… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #45 – Cyprus
“You should try that pizza place at the corner of…” “What place? There’s no pizzeria there.” “Of course there is, it’s been there for years.” I go, and I look, and there it is. A place I’ve walked past so many times that it’s impossible I couldn’t have noticed it. And yet, I never did.… Read More Pizza Anonymous
Going one out of order because one of the elements for the Cyprus entry requires about ten days of preparation, so it’s in process in the background, and I’m forging ahead with the last of the Cs, Czechia (since 2016), or the Czech Republic. Formerly known as Bohemia, and, of course, combined with its neighbor of Slovakia, it was… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #46 – Czechia
A dozen years ago I set out on a taco crawl with a friend who lived here at the time. He’s up and gone to live on some island in Florida, gotten married, had a kid, what can you do? At the time, there were few places offering tacos here. There’s not, or there wasn’t,… Read More Six Days of the Taco