The Blork Blog

The New York Times has a nice article about Rome at night in yesterday’s Travel section. The Web version includes a slide show and a multimedia walking guide. It brings me back. Rome is one of my three favorite cities in the world (I haven’t yet decided what the other two are), and as the [...]

Everybody’s talking about the Airbus A380 that landed at Montreal’s Pierre Elliot Trudeau airport yesterday. I’m a big fan of airplanes and flying, so I wish I could have been there to witness it. I’m an uneasy fan, however, as I realize that air travel is one of the biggest contributors to pollution, oil consumption, [...]

A few weeks ago I wrote about my recent pizza experiences in San Francisco. In particular, there was my revelation about Pizzeria Delfina on 18th Street, which makes a pretty good approximation of a Neapolitan-style pie. We ate another San Francisco pizza about a week later. It was our last night in the city before [...]

We went to Vermont over the Thanksgiving weekend to visit friends and to get in a bit of country living. On Saturday evening we drove over to Hartland, VT, for the Unitarian Church’s “famous roast beef dinner.” The fame is deserved – the meal was old fashioned and delicious. We sat at folding tables set [...]

Brief historical preamble for those who either don’t live near Montreal or have been asleep for the last 30 years: Montreal has two main airports; Pierre Elliot Trudeau (formerly called “Dorval”) and Mirabel. Mirabel opened in 1975 and was supposed to replace Dorval, but although it’s really big (the second largest in the world in [...]

Martine Pagé, sentenced to 20 years at Alcatraz for looooooking gooood! (Click the image for 1206×681 version.)

Loyal readers know that I like my pizza. As I get older and as my experience with pizza broadens, I find myself drawn into the elusive search for so-called “authentic” Neapolitan style pizza. (No, that doesn’t mean a pizza made with three flavors of ice cream; it means a pizza like they make in Naples.) [...]