How many times have you been in a dilemma about what to serve as a side dish? Potatoes, bread, boiled rice, noodles? How about something different, bread dumplings for example?Bread dumplings are a traditional Bavarian side dish, made from bread, milk, onion, eggs, and herbs and are among the most beloved staples of Alpine home…
Lennon and Me
And a Little Bit About The Beatles At around 10:50 p.m. (EST) on 8 December 1980, as Lennon and Ono returned to their New York apartment in the Dakota, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times in the archway of the building. Lennon was taken to the emergency room of nearby Roosevelt…
Coney Island
Luna Park and Original Nathan’s Famous Frankfurters When I was a young boy, a traveling luna park came through Celje once a year. A carousel, a shooting range with balls, some tired exotic animals. And the world opened up. In our minds, we traveled to foreign lands with circus performers, observed unusual animals, foreign peoples….
Good Ale, Raw Onions, and No Ladies
McSorley’s—what can we say about this so-called institution in the East Village, NYC? So much has already been said, painted, and sung about it. And there are so many legends surrounding this Irish pub.The pub was founded by John McSorley in 1854 under the name The Old House at Home. It is considered the longest-running…
Oyster Bar at Grand Central Terminal
Whenever I came to New York, one of my first stops was Grand Central Terminal. And I always quietly walked past the Oyster Bar.Why Grand Central? Because it’s a magnificent building and it opened to great fanfare at 12:01am on Sunday, February 2, 1913. More than 150,000 visited on opening day. And as they say…
Breakfast in America
Breakfast is the first meal of the day usually eaten in the morning. The word in English refers to breaking the fasting period of the previous night, “to break one’s fast”.Everyone has breakfast. At least most of them. Well, I rarely had breakfast when I was still at work, which is nothing to brag about….
Uzbekistan for Beginners
Where History Wears a Turban and the Moon Poses for Instagram Uzbekistan in three sketches If you think Uzbekistan is just desert and camels, get ready for me to blow away your expectations like a hot wind in Samarkand. The land of the Silk Road is full of historical gems that will sneak into your…
Afghanistan
My close (and slightly less close) encounters Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China…
Light Summer Olivier Salad
Hot town, summer in the cityBack of my neck gettin’ dirt’ and grittyBeen down, isn’t it a pity?Doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the cityAll around, people looking half-deadWalkin’ on the sidewalk, hotter than a match headThe Lovin’ Spoonful, 1966 Summers are getting hotter. Since that distant summer of ‘66, when The Lovin’ Spoonful…
Meatballs with Garlic and Ginger
Let’s have something with a Southeast Asian flavor again. Meatballs with garlic and ginger. As far as I’m concerned, the main ingredient here is ginger. For me, the spice above the spices.And what is ginger?Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a…