Culture & History Travel Guides in the USA, Europe, & Beyond
Why tie to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux? -Richard Thaler Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine. -Pat Conroy I’m a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies. -Raymond E. Feist Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes … Read more
Super-cali-fragalistic-expiali-docious, Docious-ali-expi-fragalistic-cali-super. Cancun…catch me in the room, eatin’ grouper. -Ghostface Killah Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the worlds resources will be negotiated. -Ottmar … Read more
I’d like to learn how to cook. I’ve hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don’t know what possessed me. – Mamie Gummer My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod. – Rachael Ray … Read more
In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake. -Pat Conroy Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of … Read more
In 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish boys who had imbued him with the powers of a hundred men, of a distant world, and of the full measure of their bespectacled adolescent hopefulness and desperation. -Michael Chabon A lot of … Read more
A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can tell you it is a real possibility. Just imagine it. We have already begun discussion of the last two substantive points: victims and the end of the conflict. -Juan Manuel Santos A majority … Read more
‘Orphee’ is, for me, about changes: about moving to a new city, leaving behind an old life in Copenhagen, and building a new one in Berlin – about the death of old relationships and the birth of new ones. -Johann Johannsson A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen … Read more
…Denmark should be a green and sustainable society with a visionary climate and energy policy…The answer to these challenges lies in the way we produce and consume energy and in our ability to adapt our society to climate change. -Connie Hedegaard (Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. … Read more
I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.– Anna Sui I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.– Aretha Franklin I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.– Barry Sanders The Detroit … Read more
It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.–Mother Teresa Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.–Helen Steiner Rice When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.–Jean Fritz I’m a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. … Read more