-Brazilian Pizza in a Cone Comes to Queens — Grub Street: New York Magazines Food and Restaurant Blog. -Los Feliz | Your New Tequila and Taco Den on the LES – Urban Daddy. -Tasting Chile with Nomads of the Seas – In LAN Airlines magazine. -Heads Up – Food of the Andes Finds a Home in [...]

-Lola Akinmade’s Beautiful Slideshow of Peruvian Weavers in the Village of Caccaccollo – World Hum. -Andina News has an interesting multimedia display of the Peruvian Potato. -The hard knock life of Tamaleros – tamal street vendors – in Los Angeles – American Public Media -My article on America’s Most Bizarre Restaurants – Forbes Traveler -My [...]

-CondeNast’s has put out a free guide to Tipping in 35 countries around the world – Conde Nast Traveler. -Liz Caskey describes the background of the Chilean/Peruvian Fruit Lucuma, also called the eggfruit. -Peru is a New Global Economic Leader – Newsweek. -My article on Eating Suri in the Belen Market in Iquitos, Peru appears [...]

- Man trying to challenge Cuba travel ban still free – Yahoo! News. – As Trees Fall in the Amazon, Fears That Tribes Won’t Be Heard – NYTimes.com – Surfacing – The Macarena Neighborhood of Bogotá – NYTimes.com. -In a long, drawn out dispute, Chevron has been ordered to pay $27 billion for its role in [...]

-Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations debuts the new Summer season with an episode of Chile. He stays at the Cliffs Preserve Patagonia, one of my favorite hotels in the world, which I reviewed in 2008 for Luxury Latin America. -Travel & Leisure magazine releases its annual Hotlist. Only two South American hotels, Palacio Duhau-Park Hyatt(#11) and [...]

- A new species monkey has been found in Brazilian Amazon -The new edition of Frommer’s Chile & Easter Island has been released (I updated the Lakes District, Chiloe, Carretera Austral, and Easter Island Chapters by the way) -Peru’s Lucuma exports jump 99 percent over the first half of 2009 -Alain de Bottom on The Pleasures of  [...]

-Two girls infatuated with the Che image have launched a website spotting, well, the Che image. -Dan Saltzmen at the NYtimes sips mezcal in Mexico. -Gastón Acurio’s new anticucheria in Lima, Panchita, has opened. -A new Photo book on Machu Picchu, Stone Offerings: Machu Picchu’s Terraces of Enlightenment, as been released.

Lots of of food and travel items have popped up in major publications in the past week. Here are some of the highlights.

Dave Cook of the New York Times included three South American Restaurants in his recent $25 and Under Restaurant write up. Their first mention is of the excellent Cafecito Bogota, just right down the street from my apartment in Greenpoint. I have been here before, though not since they remodeled, and, from what I can [...]