Almost two decades ago, I had my baptism by gumbo in the rolling prairie of South Dakota. The sticky clay-like soil of the plains — gumbo, as it’s known — brought down more than a few of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer’s horses when his army traveled through here in the 1870s. They were bent […]
“Now that’s my kind of dessert!” I made my declaration softly, letting the conversations around me swell and fade, as I took in my honey-drizzled, almond-speckled slices of the sun. Okay, they were orange slices. But have you tasted oranges in Morocco? They create, to borrow writer Jeff Greenwald’s phrase, a kind of citrus ecstasy. […]
Two years ago my wife and I had the good fortune to tour New Mexico for a week in the winter season. The highlights resonate with me still: Santa Fe’s illuminating museums (we were especially enchanted by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture) and exhilarating galleries, the transporting chapel at Chimayo, the extraordinary rock […]