On the Fourth of July I went to eat with my wife and her uncle from Peru at a random Italian restaurant on Mulberry Street in Little Italy. We just sort of picked a place that looked good and had an empty sidewalk seat. I was sort of regretting on… Read More →
–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… Read More →
– 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 contamination of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador…. Read More →
–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… Read More →
-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 –Buenos Aires Spotlights it’s Cafes – from the NYTimes -…and the accompanying Slideshow