September 2011 Hideaway Report
Not long ago, Sicily was a challenging place to travel: Most of the roads were poor and there was a shortage of good hotels. But during the past decade, the island has been laced with new highways, and several upscale resorts and...
Sicilian ports land some of the best seafood in the world — superb shrimp from Mazzara, plus swordfish, squid and octopus — and its farms produce outstanding olive oil, as well as fine fruit and...
Modica, a beautiful little town in southeastern Sicily, is renowned for the quality of its chocolate. The delicacy arrived on the island under the administration of the Spanish, who had discovered it in Mexico.
In 1693, a catastrophic earthquake badly damaged most of the towns in southeastern Sicily — Modica, Ragusa and Noto were destroyed — prompting a massive reconstruction effort. Fortunately, the...
During our frequent trips to Manhattan, we often feel the need to escape the din and hustle of the city. On our most recent visit, we discovered two contrasting hideaways, one in the Hudson Valley and the other on the East End of Long...
I have long recommended the lovely Hotel Plaza Athenee, located between Madison and Park avenues on New York’s Upper East Side, but as...
Thanks to waves of immigrants, New York has always been a center of great Italian food — full of charming, if not particularly innovative, establishments where traditional fare reigns. But until the mid-1980s, the really upscale New...
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