Another new post on the new site, WanderingLiguria.com, this time about Rapallo’s great food and wine boutiques, including an artisan coffee-roasting establishment with some of…
Corniglia, one of the Cinque Terre villages, seen from above (photo copyright Alison Harris) Wandering Liguria is a new site dedicated to the Italian Riviera:…
When we were on book tour last April/May the great Paula Wolfert, a bona fide National Treasure, author of some of the best cookbooks ever…
Expatica.com is a great travel site with a wide reach. It has just ranked its 10-ten of best books about France and the French. Paris,…
Change is the nature of the edibles-and-potables business everywhere. In Burgundy the region’s symbol is the snail. Change comes slowly. But the snail, like the…
Heavenly cherries in flower alongside Notre-Dame Eiffel’s tower: quite an erection… The view from on high: we visit the Eiffel Tower together (and it is…
Erica Heller and Lola, or is it the other way around? (Photo copyright Alison Harris) In a bottom-line world where under-researched overstatement is the norm,…
From Burgundy, land of emerald pastures, grapevines, giant white cows, and looping two-lane roads where tractors stop for crossing snails or lost chickens… no joke……
Writer-chef-explorer extraordinaire Elatia Harris — no relation to my wife Alison Harris — interviewed me for a great website I did not formerly know: 3quarksdaily.com.…
Last weekend my travel feature on the cathedral and lively town of Chartres ran in the San Francisco Sunday Chronicle Travel section—the cover story. This…
My feature for the SF Chronicle on Chartres and its spiritual charge was read and riffed on by James Martin, travel guru of About.com and…
Greetings from Paris, Paris! Whether you see it as beautiful weather or a killer drought, the dry heat continues all over France. With luck, good…