My beautiful friend Jenne drove with me to the end of the world today–or, at least, what felt like the end of the world as the road ended and we got out to look around.

She smiled as we heard the sounds of things uncivilized approaching…

and an ATV trio rumbled past in their mudded glory. [...]

My good friend Antony, who lives in Sydney, just reminded me of this great clip with New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo.
My favorite part is the supermarché aisle sequence, and it strikes me that many of my beautiful American readers may be in [...]

…and so I drove to the end of the turnpike yesterday afternoon, and met Jessica and Al for a tour of South Florida.
Awash in the interesting mix of high and low culture, we arrived at Robert Is Here, the fruit emporium that began in 1959 as a roadside stand.
Perusing stacks of sugarcane that [...]

The best way to see Chicago skyscrapers might just be from a gondola on the ferris wheel at Navy Pier.

John and I ascended to see the late Friday afternoon skyline, which John perhaps would have preferred to see from the ground,
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My charming friend John, who now resides in Chicago, suggested Avec on Tuesday night, which was the perfect complement to a full day of interesting talks about digital media tools with national journalism leaders.

John and I both marveled at Avec’s focaccia (ricotta is inside, I think) that was crispy and light. Avec maintains [...]

“The hypnagogic is that first stage of sleep that we drift into, when our bodies jerk and we startle ourselves accidentally,” Kate wrote on Amanda’s blog a few days ago.
That hypnagogic state is the one I often feel I’m in while visiting San Francisco—not that I wanted to wake from a dreamy chocolate tart [...]

On Thursday, I sat in a converted U.S. Army building in San Francisco surrounded by designers, deep thinkers, and other brainiacs, thanks to my friend Amit Gupta (he started the Jelly casual coworking movement and runs the photography newsletter of awesomeness Photojojo) who gave me his extra ticket.
To be more precise, I actually “won” [...]

Tuesday morning began in Miami, where I rose at 4 to catch a 6 o’clock to Dallas, then a 9 o’clock to Denver with plenty of time for the RoadFood warrior within to eat cheese enchiladas at Jack-n-Grill where they have “hot daze and chile nights.”

Refusing to choose between, I startled my server (who called [...]

In which I talk about a food product—acknowledging that Michael Pollan says plants, not products—that I hate to love (even more than this terrible screenshot below):

What do you think about goji berries?
Do you share my unlocal superfood guilt? My love for the Gummi Bears? (Guess what color gummi berries have to be in [...]

Note: Remember when I used to write long blog posts full of pictures and video? This is one of those, with a little more than usual about food politics. Leave me a comment if you’re into these; changes are afoot at kthread HQ–
About a week ago, I was sitting in a large room in Budapest’s [...]