TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT? / Knowing which foreign foodstuffs you’re allowed to bring back from your travels can save you a lot of heartache and hassle at the airport Great reference. Cannot believe you can bring back 80 bottles…

Bill Buford’s tantalizing book, Heat. By Sara

Nicaragua and Travels with a Moleskine Journal (tags: Moleskine travel art journals)

Orangette: I do, deviled eggs High-class deviled egg recipe. (tags: food) WSJ.com – San Miguel de Allende Info for a “someday” trip to San Miguel. (tags: travel Mexico)

June 6, 2006 The Spelling Bee: German Spoken Here (2 Letters) To the Editor: Re “For New Jersey 8th Grader, ‘Ursprache’ Means Fame” (news article, June 3): We have come a long way in internationalizing languages. The winner of this…

DWR Champagne Chair Contest 2005 Seriously clever: the entrants had to make a mini chair out of the cork, wire, and/or foil of not more than 2 champagne bottles. (tags: oddities design)

The Traveler’s Lunchbox – Main – Feeding an Addiction with Lemon Almond Torta Must be the Barcelona effect: everything with almonds looks great to me right now. (tags: cooking) Deadly serious – or gallows humour? – Britain – Times Online…

Gothamist: Make Your Own NYC Guidebook This new Moleskine should be fun. (tags: Moleskine notebooks) World Hum | Weblog | Travel | Top 30 Travel Books I’m besotted with travel books, so I have read this list with interest. Definitely…

Novel release on podcast site – Britain – Times Online#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=Britain#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=Britain The first podcast-only novel. What will happen next? (tags: books podcasting)

Manhattanhenge D Originally uploaded by ianqui. A strange and wonderful thing about Manhattan, which happens on May 28 and July something or other. Details to come; for now, enjoy the photo.