I don’t think there is much to explain on this one: A Pastrami on Rye sandwich from Katz Delicatessen in New York’s Lower East Side.

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

The South American camelids, the Alpaca and Vicuña, produce some of the fnest quality fiber on the planet. Here’s the lowdown.

While Playa del Carmen and the Riviera Maya have stolen everyone’s attention in Mexico, the chic colonial hideout has reinvented itself. While you won’t find an amusement park, you will find an abundance of quality, style and serenity. Here are my three picks:

The rickshaw or tuk-tuk like three-wheeled moto taxi is a favorite method of transport for many in South America, but usually for just a few kilometers. Never the continent. A few loco Brits have decided to change that. They official name of their adventure is “The Mototaxi Junket and the… Read More →

Both are native to Brazil and inhabit similar territories. However, they rarely interact. In a zoo in Japan, however, they share the same enclosure. Recently, a zoo keeper caught some strange behavior inter-species behavior going on. The monkeys have begun to ride the capybara, even picking off fleas and grooming… Read More →

Jet Blue founder Dan Neeleman has started up a new, low cost airline in his native Brazil called Azul Airlines. Azul, which started flying in January of 2009, flies to Porto Alegre, São Paolo, Manaus, Curitaba, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Campinas, Fortaleza, and several other destinations. Like Jet Blue, the… Read More →

part from those in select parts of Brazil, South American beaches usually get lumped in with Central America and are more often than not, overlooked. While major resorts tend to be lacking in comparison with Central America or the Caribbean, if you dig around you will find more than a few palm fringed gems and surf haunts. Access to fine seafood, generally cheaper than a Happy Meal at McDonald’s back home, is always readily available.

Amdist the world’s economic downtourn, country’s that were once hard on the pocketbook have become the bargain deals of the past decade. Unaffordable has become affordable. Luxury hotels and resorts are being had a fraction of the cost that they were just one year ago. Several major currencies have sunk heavily against the dollar to their lowest level in years.

La Paz, Bolivia is the home of the world’s only museum dedicated to coca, the plant that cocaine is made from. With Bolivia’s new President Evo Morales being a former coca farmer who strongly supports the crop this museum is sure to gather much more attention than before. There is even a new traveling museum that goes on tours thanks to a new drug policy grant awarded to the museum.