driving hungry

At last! After five years and three hemispheres and too many drafts to count, Driving Hungry hits the shelves today. I couldn’t have possibly imagined everything that was going to happen, everything that had to happen, between getting that first email from the woman who was to become my literary …

Whenever anyone asks me if cabbies have tried to swindle me on the taxi adventures, I tell them yes, it’s happened a handful of times – but far more common are the cabbies who go out of their way to take me to good places to eat that won’t drive …

This is the fourth in a series of posts about how Taxi Gourmet the blog led to Driving Hungry the book. In Part 1, I wrote about how I found my agent. In Part 2, I described what went into writing my book proposal. In Part 3, I talked about …

This is Part III of a three-part series about Bulgarian food. In Part II, I wrote about five cabbie-recommended places to eat in Sofia. In Part I, I wrote about 13 of my favorite things to eat (and drink) in Bulgaria. Photo courtesy autofiktion.com   If you ever decide to …

Bon voyage = На добър път. Somewhere in Bulgaria. This blog is not dead. It’s on book leave. After five years, three hemispheres, and a lot of cab rides, I finally get to tell the story behind the story of Taxi Gourmet. Driving Hungry, the book based on this blog, …

“I have sort of a strange request,” I said, sliding over the ripped backseat of the four-door Fiat, “Can you take me to your favorite restaurant?” The taxi driver stopped in the middle of the street – oblivious to the honking cars that swerved around us – and turned to …