Long before there was Santana, there was Xavier Cugat. Born in Spain in 1900, raised in Cuba, he was a violin prodigy, winning first chair in an orchestra in Havana when he was only 12. Opera superstar Enrico Caruso brought Cugat to the USA a…
Month: April 2012
My guest today is the phenomenal Leslea “Red” Tash. I’ve known her out there in meatland for years, and we’ve continued our friendship here where reality is virtuous. I mean virtual. She very kindly agreed to do an A-to-Z post for me, simultaneously promoting her…
Every so often, I turn to EATING TO LIVE LONG, a book written in 1920 by William Henry Porter, M.D., for medical advice that is unrivaled in being almost invariably wrong. In a chapter entitled “Food Fads and Foolishness”, he says, “Forcing one’s self to…