An excerpt from my new book “Wanderlust: Extraordinary People, Quirky Places, and Curious Cuisine,” out October 4th. The White Sands National Monument is about seventy miles from Las Cruces and is notable for two reasons. First, it is the site of one of the world’s largest above ground gypsum deposits. Gypsum is a widely used mineral found in cement and drywall … Read More
For Cod’s Sake: Newfoundland
For the two weeks I traveled around Newfoundland, cod came up in conversation several times a day. I was never the one to bring it up.