On The Road
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New York 2007, Part 1
A recent visit to New York City brought us plenty of its usual pleasures, primarily going to theater and restaurants, strolling and visiting with old friends. Shopping can be a close fifth. While the weather was too nasty for a great deal of our usual Manhattan walking, we’re happy to tell you about the food,
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Barcelona Snacks and More
Sometimes traveling calls for three meals a day. And that’s okay; we’ve been on trips like that. But Barcelona isn’t one of them. The urge to nibble is irresistible. There are lots of options. Herewith, a few suggestions on snacking. . . . – The Barcelona native often orders a café cortado, which is black coffee
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Barcelona Tapas
Everybody knows about tapas these days. If they know nothing else about Spanish food, restaurant-goers are familiar with the small-plate appetizer lists that offer nibbling possibilities, sometimes before, sometimes after, sometimes instead of a meal. They’re everywhere in Barcelona. Technically, they’re pinxos, pronounced "pinchos" in Catalan, but we almost never saw that word on a
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Plano, TX
In our constant quest for notable breakfasts, whether at home or on the road, we proudly introduce you to Aparicio’s in Plano, Tex. Plano is one of those sprawling suburbs of Dallas that absolutely teems with restaurants, but a good breakfast is as hard to come by there as it is almost anywhere else in
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Barcelona: Beginnings
Barcelona? Why go to Barcelona? We first visited it a few years back, receiving a good introduction to its architecture – there’s certainly much more than the fascinating, fanciful work of Antonio Gaudi’s — but almost none to its food. The brief tastes we had, though, were enough to lure us back. For an eight-night
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Shaw and Shakespeare
The Canadian province of Ontario is bordered on three sides by as many Great Lakes – Ontario, Erie and Huron – and its interior is highlighted by a pair of delightful theater festivals, the Shakespeare Festival at Stratford and the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Its largest city, Toronto, also is home to a wonderful film
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Stratford, Ontario
A town named Stratford is an appropriate place for Shakespeare, to be sure. And Canada’s Stratford Festival, a little more than a two-hour drive east from Detroit, is a popular summer destination. Two of the three festival theaters are in a park-like setting overlooking Lake Victoria, created by dams on the Avon River. Benches provide
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Washington, DC
Washington, DC, is known for many things. For us, one of the most important (aside from visiting the part of the family known as the Washington Bureau) is breakfast at Eastern Market. Just east of the US Capitol, in a residential neighborhood that’s been gentrified, Eastern Market is a smaller version of Soulard, with indoor
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Cumberland, MD
There are times when things just fall into one’s lap. In Cumberland, Md., a Western Maryland town on the much-underused I-68, we were looking for lunch. Downtown, we drove around a little and found a parking place, thinking we had a good chance to get lucky on a street that had become a pedestrian mall.
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Louisville, KY
Lynn’s Paradise Café has been the subject of many articles, so our first visit doesn’t quite fall into the category of a discovery. And yet, we weren’t prepared for what we found. Lynn’s is, as Hollywood used to say about its comedies, "a laff riot." It’s not one of those folksy spots filled with old