“You beat me sky-high, for wherever I went…the constant inquiry was, Do you know Barnum?’”
“A Field of Ruins;” Review of The Liberation of Paris
If he defied Hitler and did not destroy Paris before the Allies arrived, his family of a wife and three children living in Baden Baden would fall under the rule of Sippenhaft–they would be punished for his failure to obey orders and could possibly be executed.
Underland: A Review
To experience the Underland, he survives blizzards, freezing water, ice crevasses, blocked cave passages, and oxygen deprivation.
The Book That Lives Up to Its Title
In brief spurts, the tuna can reach 144 miles an hour in a medium that’s roughly 800 times denser than air.
New Book Deal with UNM Press
I’m pleased to announce that I have signed a contract with the University of New Mexico Press for a book entitled Chile Peppers: A World History. It is scheduled for publication in Fall, 2020. It will be a large format trade paperback with more that a hundred color photographs, and will be part culinary history and part memoir of my … Read More