Most expensive meal vs. best meal

Blogroll question: What’s the most expensive meal you’ve ever had? What’s the best meal you’ve ever had? Hmm… I rarely go out to eat at expensive restaurants, so I’m pretty sure the most expensive meal I ever had was at Bergdiele, where Stefan and I went out for our first anniversary. It’s tucked away in [...]

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My very worst job

Blogroll question: What’s the worst job you ever held, and why was it so awful? The worst job I ever had…was one that I really would have enjoyed under other circumstances. Now, it wasn’t exactly a job in the traditional sense that I do some work and get paid for it. No no. It was [...]

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Retrospective

Note on the previous post: I don’t want you to get the impression that I don’t like Dan Brown, I think he’s the best kind of poolside or vacation reading: easy to follow, cheap thrills, page-turning, requiring just one stage of brain activity above completely comatose, etc. Just not the literature many seem to take [...]

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How far have you ever traveled for food?

The blogroll subject of the week is “How far have you traveled for food”. Unfortunately, I don’t have any spectacular story of intercontinental journeys for tacos. I guess the farthest I’ve traveled would be clear across Vienna, on foot, for a hot dog (I’m using the term hotdog for all the myriad kinds of sausages sold at [...]

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