When I wrote about North Korea (Nothing to Envy: Barbara Demick, Real Lives in North Korea) six weeks ago, several people reminded me that there are similar areas of the world that are still frozen in the middle of the last century. Isadora Tattlin’s Cuba Diaries is about four years spent in one of those […]
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Cumin with lentils, very simple side dish
A great dish to prepare in advance Two friend of ours were helping us take care of our handicapped daughter and my post-operative husband this weekend by doing some of the cooking. This is more than help: David in particular is a wonderful cook and even his simplest dishes are always delicious. When he heard […]
November love affair, birds and vines (photo)
If you’re a bird, or better yet several thousand birds, the best party in town is any local vineyard where the harvest is long finished but cold weather has held off and the grapes left on the wines are berry berry sweet. The air was filled with beating wings Tuesday near Mont-sur-Rolle, Chateau Chas great […]
Glacier Express deadly accident was due to driver blackout
Sion, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The 23 July 2010 accident on one of Switzerland’s most popular tourist attractions, the Glacier Express, was due entirely to the driver having an inexplicable blackout, the federal public transport specialist who has overseen the investigation told Sonntags Blick magazine. There was no pressure on him to accelerate too soon to […]
Fribourg, Geneva, Vaud chocolate week tastings
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – You still have a couple days left to sample artisanal chocolates and buy them at a discount at several chocolate boutiques in the region. Chocolate Week, the brainchild of Neuchatel’s chocolate-makers several years ago, was adopted by Vaud five years ago and more recently by Fribourg and Geneva. The idea is […]