Eating Without Regrets

I just love waking up in Florence. There is just something unreal about this place. You can be wandering down a small cramped street and suddenly it will open onto an expansive piazza grounded by a ponderous medieval palace. That is the experience we had tonight. I can’t help but wonder what this square felt […]

Up, up, and …Oh wait!

I know one French word. Merci. That’s it. That’s the extent of my French. I keep flying this goddamn French airline and when they ask what I want to eat, I say “Thank You.” Oh well …. This flight is a disaster. It was supposed to leave at 22:35, but was delayed until 300 because […]

Butterblogger Still Lives

Boy have I neglected the blog. Of course, I really only blog when I travel, and since I haven’t been traveling I haven’t been blogging. This doesn’t mean I haven’t been eating, of course … or drinking for that matter. In case anybody is reading, I’d like to offer a quick drink recipe. And the […]

Hygiene Smigiene

It’s time to go home. The ultimate proof is my deteriorating hygiene. It’s not my fault, really. My beard trimmer was discharged somewhere between DTW and CPH, so I haven’t been able to trim the beard (I have been shaving around the edges though). Then on the flight from CPH to AMS the electric toothbrush […]

Michelin Doesn’t Know Jack About Eating in Amsterdam

We got up today, found a cafe for breakfast and headed to the Van Gogh Museum. We arrived there 20 minutes before opening and still found ourselves waiting in a long line. The docents open the door and we all plodded forward to the ticket window, and then the most miraculous thing occurred. They split […]

SAS is a Very American Airline

Note: I’m posting this late, due to exhaustion and wifi issues. Get over it. Last day of the conference today, and I had to leave a couple hours early to catch the flight to Amsterdam, so after breakfast I went to the conference and sat through a few sessions and then returned to the hotel […]