Neukölln food

1974 was an extraordinary year in Berlin, even by Berlin standards: it was the year the punk movement started to flower in West Berlin, the year the East German team upset the West Germans in the World Cup (though the West Germans went on to win the whole thing), the …

Lamb ‘antrikote’ at Maranda. Photo by autofiktion.com   I have to confess I’m a little rusty, not to mention a little resistant, when it comes to jumping back into the taxi adventures after spending most of the last two years sitting at my computer, writing about taxi adventures gone by. …

This post is dedicated the memory of Alberto Paz. Though I never had the pleasure of meeting Alberto in person, I learned about him and his partner Valorie Hart through their website, Planet Tango, where Alberto also posted his many translations of tango lyrics into English. A few weeks ago, …