Contemporary Tchochkes

Another from the very extensive penguin library. (Every time I open my computer I find a new gem!) This gentoo penguin came to keep me company at Tay Head, Antarctica, during my visit in December 2006. And no, we did not take that inflatable motor raft across the Drake Passage from Chile. There is an icebreaker around the corner. Promise. -Tara

I’ve edited and uploaded a video from the El Motivo Práctica at Villa Malcolm I reference in my prior blog post about milongas in Buenos Aires, as well as in my BBC Travel article The tango Buenos Aires tourists never see. The dance in the video actually is the dance I wrote in as the opening in the story. Unfortunately, the video it’s a bit dark, but I hope does an ample job of conveying the sentiment of the performance [...]

In my opinion, there is nothing better than the 4 p.m. snack, or merienda, as Karina would call it in Buenos Aires. And when sitting down to this merienda, the only thing I want to see (and come to think of it, the only thing I ever crave, period) is cured meats and strong cheeses with an assortment of bread and crackers and maybe some grapes, so I don’t get scurvy. So naturally, I caught the overwhelming scent of tender prosciutto [...]

Thanks to my pilot’s crafty landing on my return to NYC from New Orleans, I was able to snap this beautiful day in downtown Manhattan and south Brooklyn. Look for the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg bridges, left to right. -Tara