Off to Spain today, to work on the LP Spain walking guide–basically the same turf as my April trip, but an enforced slower pace. As I leave for the airport, there is still a kerfuffle over the title of mine and Tamara’s cookbook, which some of you may’ve heard about via Facebook last week. I [...]
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Ooh, very promising: Fellow Lonely Planet writer, native New Yorker and generally perceptive gal Conner Gorry has finally started a blog about daily life in Havana: Here Is Havana Peter and I and a few other friends went to Cuba in 1996, I think it was. (Surely it’s OK to say this, and the statute [...]
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I’ve lived in Astoria for 11 years. There are lots of grocery stores here, and new foodstuffs all the time. But it’s been a long time since I’ve found something I’ve never even heard of: oxymeli. It was just sitting there, all innocent, on the shelf at my usual Greek grocery, Greek House on 30th [...]
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For photos and more anecdotes, see my Flickr set. My mother has this saying, “It’s hell having a good time.” Best uttered near the tail end of a party, when exhausted, or when the logistics of entertaining oneself prove very challenging. Also, to oneself when lying in bed, bloated with delicious food. I signed up [...]
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