Food and Drink. Music. Photography. Sports. Shopping. Technology. Everything that doesn’t fit in the travel category will probably fit in this one.
Zucchini is in season right now, and soon there will be so much we won’t know what to do with it. I could probably eat zucchini everyday. It’s so versatile – grill it, sautee it, fry it up. Yesterday morning, I took to frittering it. I modified this recipe from the May 2002 issue of…
My staple during this hot Turkish summer has been kisir, what some call Turkish Tabbouleh. It’s not really a salad, but it makes the perfect cold side for stuffed peppers or karniyarik (another Turkish dish I’m making a lot lately). I learned this recipe from my maid, but you can also find a perfectly good…
I am not a wine expert. I’ve never been a sommelier and I have a rather rudimentary understanding of wine grapes, varietals, bouquets, and all the other vocabulary that goes with being a connoisseur du vin. So it was with great surprise when the PR company behind the Vinturi Wine Aerator contacted me about reviewing…
The Black-Eyed Susan is hardly as elegant as the Kentucky Derby’s Mint Julep. But, it sounds tasty enough. The weird thing about the Black-Eyed Susan is that there are so many variations on how to make it. Sometimes it’s made with vodka, sometimes with whiskey. This recipe calls for both vodka and whiskey and Baltimore…
Shut up and take my money, Handpresso, maker of portable espresso machines. To be honest, you had me at “Hand” but then you really nailed it with the “presso” part. How did you know I was the perfect person to which to send that press release this morning? At any rate, I can’t wait to…
Keith Haring, American Master documentary looks at the pop artist’s young life, his rise to fame, his AIDS activism, and his untimely end.
Sponsorship. If you’re a travel writer, this is a topic that often comes up. Will you take a sponsored press trip, a trip that is planned for you and/or a group of other writers, so that you can see places you may not be able to afford to go? Or, do you go it alone,…
It’s been more than a year since I’ve written anything on this site. But the awful news about Anthony Bourdain seems like as good a time as any to start again. I hate to think of his ending as sparking my beginning (again). As a friend put it, these countless in memoriam posts are self-serving….
Two months ago, I moved to another city. And I still haven’t gotten over it. This isn’t a tale of culture shock, though my old city and my new one are quite different. Nor is this a tale of hardship. My life is comfortable — more comfortable than most — and I didn’t have to…
