What a wonderful collection. I can't recommend this highly enough. There is a superb variety of travel experiences documented here but, most importantly, it is packed with great writing. A real gem of a book. I enjoyed so many of the essays but particular highlights were the ones about the trip t...
This was every bit as much about the people and places and cultures visited as it was about the food. Some of the stories are not for "younger or more sensitive viewers," but the the truly stomach-turning were the few exceptions and even these gave fascinating glimpses of lives lived in other pl...
That was a glorious re-immersion in and celebration of poignant places from my past, and the most poignant of all was Notre-Dame Cathedral. Notre-Dame is one of the planet’s touchstone places for me, and this essay was, in a sense, an attempt to stop time: to focus on a remembered moment in a pla...