One of the biggest culinary discoveries outside of the States is an exceedingly simple one: how different food tastes when it is actually fresh.
When the typical middle-American dining experience is at a chain restaurant, companies like Sysco are supplying even the mom-and-pops, and we’re too tired after work to cook a real meal, many of us [...]

A winter wind is blowing.
I am snuggling into my sweatshirts something fierce. The days are still mild, warm enough to eat outside, but the nights are becoming tinged with a bone-damp chill that only goes away with a warm soak in the tub.
I used to love the wintertime; the dull flat grey skies that make [...]

El Oso and I are in Buenos Aires for the next three months working on the books. We’ve been here a month already this year. It seems like it’s been winter forever. We spent the Northern Hemisphere’s winter in rural Pennsylvania, freezing our asses off. Now, as the corn is growing and the sun is [...]

I may not have done much else, but I have had the great good luck in life to travel. 

In fact, I’ve been in transit much of my life. My sweetly rebellious salesman dad bucked convention by bringing our family along on his business trips, which were nearly constant. As soon as school let [...]