curiosity about the grilled sardines, the pork belly and the ocean trout; the carmelized brioche and the olive oil ice cream with the warm chocolate cake! Our entrees were the Ribeye and Bellweather lamb. Can I borrow a Pen? was...

decent sushi there. Rio has these wonderful suco bars that serve tens or hundreds of fresh squeezed juices from the rain forest fruits mentioned above. You can also find places that make caipirinha style cachaca-based tails from...

quite delighted with everything we ordered, not to forget the drinks at the beginning, including a ginger drink with gin, a tomato drink with vodka, a lavender drink and a tarragon drink with cachaca! All in all it was an...

've found that they do wonderful things with plantains. They also make great caipirinhas and have a handful of good cachacas. Skappo – Excellent Italian small plates. Specifically, the food is Umbrian, which uses a rather...

, Zimmerman’s always had the obscure and profound beers and liquors, much more so than Binny’s. They had four kinds of cachaca ten years ago, well before it was cool.

fresh lime juice and half Rose’s), a Caipirinha when I can get my hands on cachaça, a Mojito, or a Planter’s Punch in the summer. I will often have a gin and tonic or a greyhound if I face a basic bar. Most people can...

Duh :) Of course, silly boy. When we did a house exchange on Cape Cod in June, I carried a chef’s knife, microplane grater, maybeanother item or two. Bringing back four bottles of cachaca tomorrow – checked.

* shochu Jagermeister Carlson’s lemon fish oil and some vitamins Items I will never use and need to toss: a margarita mix, and a cosmo mix Freezer has Tru Organic vodka*, some blue agave tequila, Ypioca cachaca*, pork fat,...