Food
Salon d’Agriculture – a favorite Paris cultural event
One really cool thing that my husband and I enjoy doing in Paris is visiting the annual Salon d’Agriculture. An agricultural fair. I have to admit, my husband had to drag me to it the first time. I thought, why would I want to see a bunch of cows. Or pigs. Or whatever. I’m a…
Read MoreRestaurant Review: Brooklyn Burger Bar (Hamburg, Germany)
Friends had warned us that Brooklyn Burger Bar was painfully hip. So I should have been ready for the clipboard menus, industrial-chic walls, neon sign behind the bar AND 1950s schoolroom chairs. (And having lived in New York City for ten years, including a year-and-a-half in Park Slope, Brooklyn, I know a thing or two…
Read MoreBourbon Chase: Day 1, Pre-race – Mexican dinner in the ‘burbs of Louisville
I did a really cool thing last weekend: I ran in the Bourbon Chase relay from Louisville to Lexington, Kentucky. It was brutal and fun. (Maybe that’s fair descriptor of life, too?) Even with my misgivings at the time (horrible stomach cramps, lack of showering, lack of sleep), I would do it again. When I…
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