Anecdotes like this fill the book and provide entertainment for longtime travelers, technology nerds, pilots and other airline professionals, and especially food lovers…
How to Build a Smoking Closet and Smoke a Brisket, 1871
The meat must be left to smoke for eight days, the fire being well kept up and the herbs renewed every other day…
Chile and Chocolate
In prehistoric times, ancient cooks would have naturally experimented with combining two of their favorite crops…
Meet Sharon Hudgins, World Traveler
An avid rail rider, she has also logged nearly 40,000 miles on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, where she gave lectures on the history of Russia and the railroad for National Geographic Expeditions…
Down de Islands–A Spicy Travel Retrospective, 1992
In which we lime about and solve the riddle of the mystery tombstone…