Word of Mouth

My new jazz vocal project features my lyrics to jazz compositions and solos as well as additional lyrics to standards of the Great Americ...

Madeleine schmadeleine; I've got garbage trucks. Passing a garbage truck on the way to the subway this morning, I was reminded of my c...

I love looking at catalogs, all sorts of catalogs, but my favorite ones are from the novelty and "gift" houses. When I was a kid ...

Lois Gilbert, the indefatigable webmistress of the online jazz portal Jazz Corner, announced last night that the Speakeasy bulletin board wo...

As I still have a number of mint condition copies of the long out of print Condensed Book , I decided to become an Amazon seller to offe...

I started Word of Mouth in 2006 as a food and travel blog, and I updated it regularly for about six years. Then I took a break, partly due t...

For me, one of the great recipes for bliss is to just wander around a beautiful, unfamiliar place, with no fixed agenda, all cares and woes ...

Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, who passed away this week, was a true American original, a musical artist of singular genius and originality w...

When I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn the only ketchup we'd consider using on our fries was Heinz.  Any other brand, especially if ...

After six years of fairly faithful food and travel blogging, I felt it was time for a break.  Meanwhile, I've been working on getting my...

"Chac Mool" at Merida Anthropology Museum Well, at the risk of sounding egocentric, as if that ever bothered me, this was my year...

Tulum lies on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan peninsula, in the state of Quintana Roo, about two hours south of Cancun. This stretch of ...

No, I'm not trying to write one of those pieces for the New York Times travel section, but I did spend literally 24 hours in Valladolid...

Seafood, of course, except for breakfast. On Thursday I had lunch at one of the beachfront palapas on the rather shabby beach next to the aq...

The Malecon I spent Thanksgiving and the day after in Veracruz, before heading off to the Yucatan, and I'll tell you what I ate next tim...