Sara Berg-Johnson is lucky to be living (and eating) in what that Chowhound founder Jim Leff considers to be the best food city in the world: Montreal. Hungry and raring to dig deeper into the culinary scene in La Belle Ville, she ventured out on her very first taxi adventure last week. Posts Tagged ‘ italian ’
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Montreal Dispatch: A Virgin Taxi Adventure & the Greek that Became Tuscan
Sara Berg-Johnson is lucky to be living (and eating) in what that Chowhound founder Jim Leff considers to be the best food city in the world: Montreal. Hungry and raring to dig deeper into the culinary scene in La Belle Ville, she ventured out on her very first taxi adventure last week. Basilicata in Berlin
Just as cabbie Waltraut Zille's blue gummy bear earrings were a sign of a good journey to come, the bread at Trattoria a' Muntagnola, the restaurant she recommended during our ride last week, made my co-adventurer and me believe that we were at the beginning of a very good meal. The Greatest Frank of All?
They’d run out of lasagne by the time I got to Frankie Franks last Friday. An hour on the subway and twenty minutes trekking through the Bronx to taste the dish that cabbie Mohamed had recommended with so much enthusiasm had led to a dead end.
Of course I was disappointed. I silently cursed the...Read more »
The Golden Gnocchi
Buenos Aires, 1955. An Italian immigrant named Luigi opens a nondescript cantina on the corner of Billinghurst and Valentín Gomez in Almagro.
Musicians and singers – including tango-singing legend Roberto Goyeneche – begin to gather there. Soccer stars, poets and painters follow. Don Carlos flourishes, but Luigi grows tired of the glam and sells the...Read more »
Lady Cab Driver
Tennessee Williams said that “Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life.”
I would add that a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in a taxicab. Especially...Read more »
Déjà David
The Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen says that “experience isn’t interesting until it begins to repeat itself – in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.”
I tried to keep this idea in mind when Cacho, an ex-butcher who started driving a taxi after the Argentine economy crashed in 2001, dropped off my vegetarian...Read more »
La Vita è Bella
“I don’t eat lunch,” the taxista said, “I only eat fruit when I’m driving. I have to take care of myself, you know?”
Take care of himself he did. If I didn’t know better, I would’ve assumed that the bald cabbie in the sky-blue sweater vest had just come from a day spa. Such was...Read more »
