Archive for the ‘The Air, Land and Sea’ Category
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Listen to the podcast of this post: John J. Goddard - Parasol Mushroom, 12.19.2007
Mushroom hunting is so popular in continental Croatia that it's practically considered a sport. It really is terrific fun, and aside from being a good excuse to spend hours milling about in the forest like an idiot, ...
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
A few weeks ago I saw a recipe for guacamole on a popular food blog that called for "perfectly ripe" avocados. I was compelled to comment that there's so much joy to be gotten from unripe and over-ripe fruits and vegetables, even avocados. More than a few cultures are known ...
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Someone decided to have roštilj (barbecue) at Igor's weekend place in Tržić, way up in the wine-growing Samoborske Gorje, about an hour from Zagreb. In true northern Croatian fashion, there was plenty of meat, including thick trenchers of GRILLED BACON.
Igor pulled the requisite green onion crudite from his garden, but ...
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
All at once, I'm giving a new format and a new feature a spin today. Such daredevilry is most often the jurisdiction of heros, emperors and utter fools, and I am, without question, no emperor or hero. Older articles with larger images will probably look wonky until I get ...
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
Norway has agreed to foot the bill for a "doomsday" vault to house seed specimens of food-producing crops. This is good to know. In the event of a cataclysm or major F-up that'd prevent the normal cultivation of food crops for a while, we'd be in trouble without a back-up. ...
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
Heading from Zagreb to the Istrian peninsula is a bit like bidding farewell to a tipsy uncle at a boisterous family gathering as you retreat to the peace of a rustic cottage in a cool, quiet forest. I’d arrived in Croatia’s easygoing capital a few days earlier on my first ...
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
Another murderous jaunt to Croatia's coast has yielded fresh battle wounds, tan lines and hundreds of new photos. I netted this one on the beach in front of Buže and Veronika's caffe bar in Sumpetar, just 12 kilometers from Split.
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
The tourist season may be off to a late start in Dalmatia this year, but the growing season is already in full swing on the Pelješac Peninsula. These grapes are soaking up sixteen hours of intense sunlight daily, preparing to be VERY strong white wine.
Here beneath the fearsome Sveti Ilija, ...
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
To declare that the vastness of the Dalmatian topography inflames the heart and rouses the spirit is to vastly understate the actuality of its magnificence. This is but one view of the Pelješac Canal from the road to Nakovana. The clipper you see anchored at Korčula was rumored in Viganj ...
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