Galway is a city on the edge of the ocean and on the edge of Europe. Here, on the west coast of Ireland, the rain-swollen Corrib surges past granite bridges on the way to the Atlantic. For generations, Spanish boats docked here to unload wines and citrus fruits. This was also where Christopher Columbus rested [...]
Places
Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop: A Crossroads
January 17th, 2008 by Janera SoerelDown the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff (288 pages; Little Brown) By Rosemary Mahoney
July 16th, 2007 by HannahTowards the end of her transfixing travel memoir Down the Nile, Rosemary Mahoney remarks that Florence Nightingale—the 19th century British nurse whose image the author marvelously resurrects as an intrepid, edgy heroine—“strikes one as willing to try just about anything.” The same should be said about Mahoney, whose oeuvre is devoted to her own fearless [...]
A Week With Piedmont’s Star Cuisiniere: Cesare Giaccone
June 20th, 2007 by Janera Soerel
In his treatise about the gentle art of eating, The Physiology of Taste, the 19th century gastronomic philosopher Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin can be more than a tad de trop. However, there is considerable merit to his contention that fine dining ought to combine Attic Elegance, Roman Luxury, and French Subtlety…
