Five days back in NYC for a whirlwind visit with friends. Almost none of my old friends till live in the city, having moved to either close or distant places, ranging from Yonkers to Sicily. I think just over half of the people I saw this week made the effort to come into town to… Read More Barely Grazing New York City
I have just spent five days in Panama City, my first ever visit there. Now, most people who put the metropolis (is it a metropolis?) on their bucket list do so because of that canal thingy. The canal was never on my list. Come to think of it, I don’t know that I really have… Read More Panama says, “Bite Me!”
I was all prepared for a weeklong gastronomic extravaganza as Henry and I winged our way off to Mendoza, a short 600 and change mile flight to the west. I’d worked on lining up reservations at some of the top restaurants in the city, visits to some more offbeat wineries, and just generally having a… Read More A Mendozan Short Shrift
It was a short four days in Montevideo, but I packed a lot of eating in. There wasn’t a lot else to do as it poured rain and howled wind most of the time. Luckily, I don’t mind checking out restaurants, you know? I already covered a couple of new chivito uruguayos in a post a… Read More Montage Montevideo
How does the Chivito Uruguayo stack up? We’re off, today, to the República Oriental del Uruguay, or, just Uruguay. Probably about a decade ago I got into an online “discussion” with an NYU student spending a year abroad in Argentina, who, in a misguided, early woke attempt, went into an online rant about the racism of… Read More An Oriental Sandwich
All food, all the time, no? I really didn’t do much else on my return to Lima for three days – a single visit to the city’s art museum for an exhibit on Incan culture. I liked the bowl pictured at the top of the page. On to the food! Bam Bam y sus Conchas… Read More Lima, Round 2
Okay, so I’m behind, because I just decided not to spend time while on vacation posting on the blog. For those who follow me on Instagram, you’ve probably seen a good portion of this. After three days in Lima, I headed up to Trujillo, where Henry’s from, to spend a little over a week with… Read More North to the Coast and the Mountains!
We were off! It’s been a bit since we got away for a few days to just relax together. It was also a bit of a mistake, in that I had a senior moment, having booked a private party for tomorrow, and we planned our trip around it, but I’d somehow missed rescheduling it for… Read More The Other Side of the Mountain