My Food History Blog
If you’re looking for me, H.D. Miller, I’m now blogging over at An Eccentric Culinary History. So, pop on over there right now and see what I’...
If you’re looking for me, H.D. Miller, I’m now blogging over at An Eccentric Culinary History. So, pop on over there right now and see what I’...
While we were away in San Pedro de Atacama, the “Driest Place on Earth”, where it rained buckets and hailed teacups, fall officially and actually ar...
As someone who has a terrible time pronouncing certain letters in Spanish correctly (all of them), I now take time to remind you that Spanish speakers have a te...
Whenever I think I’m getting better at understanding Chilean Spanish, I watch some Chilean television and am reminded that, yo, this stuff is hard. Embedd...
This does nothing to dispel the belief that NASA is wasting our money, nor does it help put any of the glamour back into space exploration. Instead of heroes of...
Here’s a short video produced by Lucas Wiman of our trip up the Maipo to the Termas de Valle Colina. This gives you a good sense of the what it was like u...
This quake felt like someone had given the bed a hard shove, followed by the mild swaying of the apartment building for a minute or two. My wife, who was in the...
I took the photo above this morning at dawn (Sunday, 7am). I wanted to show you that you can see the Andes before the daily smog cover accumulates. Compare this...
Our apartment is on the 17th floor and we have a great view to the north of the Gran Torre de Santiago, the tallest building in South America. The Torre sits di...
At first look, the bus that was going to take us up a narrow mountain road into the Andes was not confidence-inspiring. It was an aged, silver Mercedes, a dinge...