travel + culture
What’s a Nice Person Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
You need to find that perfect someone, and that's where Mango-Tree.com—a new online dating service focused exclusively on travel—comes in.
06.11.07
- Keywords
- culinary culture,
- travel,
- william sertl
food politics
Whole Lot of Marketing Going On
Whole Foods, whose first branch outside the U.S. opens tomorrow in London, has been running a serious PR blitz.
06.05.07
- Keywords
- sustainability,
- supermarket,
- london,
- u.k.,
- william sertl
food politics
McDonald’s Has a Royal Cow
When Prince Charles recently visited Abu Dhabi, he turned to a nutritionist and said: "Have you thought of banning McDonald's?
04.16.07
- Keywords
- health + science,
- nutrition/diet,
- middle east,
- restaurants,
- william sertl
food + cooking
Wish They Could All Not Be California Rolls
Japan is on a roll against rolls…named California, Philadelphia, and New Jersey (the latter a personal favorite from a restaurant in Manhattan).
02.05.07
- Keywords
- william sertl,
- culinary culture,
- japan,
- japanese
travel + culture
A Piece of Cake at the Mandarin in Hong Kong
Nina Simonds reports that the Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong is looking pretty good these days as it undergoes a full-tilt, $140 million renovation.
01.19.07
- Keywords
- william sertl,
- hotels,
- hong kong
travel + culture
Dog Days in Tucson
Writer Margy Rochlin travels frequently to Tucson from her home in L.A., visiting family and stuffing herself. Here's her latest find.
01.08.07
- Keywords
- william sertl,
- restaurants,
- tucson
travel + culture
2006: The Year in Travel
What was your most memorable trip this year? Arizona.
Riding around the desert in a rented convertible is a New Yorker's version of
summer camp.
12.31.06
- Keywords
- william sertl,
- the year in travel
food politics
The World is Your Oysters
This year, the oyster crop underwent a miraculous change. The shells were larger than before. The meat was plump and rested undisturbed in its brine.
11.28.06
- Keywords
- farms + fish,
- aquaculture,
- seafood,
- william sertl
travel + culture
Eating it up in London
Everyone says they must attend the World Travel Market, but I suspect that nobody really knows why they do, unless it’s to eat dinner in London.
11.10.06
- Keywords
- restaurants,
- london,
- u.k.,
- william sertl
magazine
Berlin: Act II
With Germany’s reborn capital entering a new stage of its career, a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright revisits the scene of his first production.
November 2003
- Keywords
- edward albee,
- william sertl,
- berlin,
- europe,
- travel