Andy HoffmanTiradentes, the colonial center of Brazil, has dozens of coffee shops, places that pride themselves on both their baking and their coffee. I won’t pretend…
We have to start with Shakespeare, because his play sets the tone. Over the centuries, people have taken so many perspectives on this tragic love…
A friend told us we had to visit Bichinho, a settlement a few miles afield from Tiradentes, a colonial town in Minas Gerais in Brazil.…
I woke up in the mountains of Brazil, in a small reconstructed colonial town called Tiradentes, named for an independence fighter who helped separate Brazil…
Deborah LeipzigerWe open the shutters and see the terracotta roofs before us and beyond them the mountains. Bird song.
I claim no expertise on Christmas. I have no traditions. My first wife, though Jewish by birth, liked the pagan symbols of the season. She…
We live the way we do in small part because it quiets the awful noise made by the collapse of the American experiment in democracy.…
São Paulo changes fast. Most of the changes improve the city. Deb grew up here and harbors dreadful memories of violence, poverty, dictatorship, and environmental…
“What do people in Brazil eat for breakfast?” I asked Deb as we prepared for our trip to her homeland. I’m always asking Deb questions…
We’ve all had cold pizza for breakfast, or if you haven’t – I’m looking at you, Deborah Leipziger– some misplaced social delicacy has gotten in…