What We Loved This Week: Green Chili Cheeseburgers, Bife de Lomo and More

Travel Blog  •  World Hum  •  04.17.09 | 5:05 PM ET

Sophia Dembling
The green chili cheeseburgers at The Owl Bar & Café in San Antonio, New Mexico. Opened in the 1940s to serve burgers and cold beers to guys working at the Trinity Site of the first atomic bomb test, the Owl is now an institution. It’s said a politician can’t get elected in NM without a stop here.

green chile cheeseburger

Terry Ward
Paying just 15 euros to catch a ride from Hamburg to Bielefeld when the train would have cost me 56 euros. I snagged a passenger seat with a fellow Easter commuter using Germany’s awesome rideshare website, mitfahrgelegenheit.de.

Jim Benning
I loved the debate about Twitter and travel inspired by our Ask Rolf column. Beyond some of the heated rhetoric was a discussion essentially about what travel means to each of us individually, and how to get the most out of our journeys. That’s always worth talking about.

Frank Bures
I loved this video of Ryan Beifus’s travels through Nigeria. Jason Daley’s fabulous advice about urban primates management notwithstanding, this encounter gives a whole new meaning to “No Touch Monkey.”  (via Niajablog)

Joanna Kakissis
Count me among the millions of people who are now fans of Scotland’s Susan Boyle, the “Britain’s Got Talent” contestant who became a YouTube star after stunning the judges and audience to tears with her gorgeous rendition of “I Dream a Dream” from Les Miserables. No one expected a matronly 47-year-old who had never been kissed and lived alone with a cat named Pebbles to sing so beautifully, which is why her performance elicited Beatles-esqe screams of admiration, multiple standing ovations and even a sweet, satisfied smile from Simon Cowell. I cried, dear World Hummers. Here’s to beauty dismissed, and redeemed.

Michael Yessis
Reading David Sedaris’ New Yorker story about lost loves and trains while on Amtrak train 2171 last night.

Rob Verger
I loved meeting filmmaker Hugo Berkeley, whose film A Normal Life won Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2003. Berkeley came to speak at the International House in New York, and screened a clip of his upcoming film The Exchange, about the Ethiopian Commodities Exchange and “the end of famine.”

Valerie Conners
Bife de lomo and a bottle of Prodigo 2005 Malbec at Don Julio’s restaurant in Buenos Aires. Thanks much to World Hum’s Alexander Basek, who recommended this place to me, I found what was, hands-down, my favorite of all my meals in Buenos Aires. A perfect tender cut of meat and a delightful, crisp bottle of wine to accompany it—pure bliss.

Eva Holland
I walked Broadway from end to end (well, the Manhattan portion anyway—it carries on north for miles and miles) and was fascinated by the many varied slices of New York life I was able to see during the course of one long stroll. My favorite stretch? The Washington Heights area north of Columbia University, where I was reminded yet again that I need to acquire some Spanish. Here’s photographic evidence that I made it to the end:

broadway, new york city
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2 Comments for What We Loved This Week: Green Chili Cheeseburgers, Bife de Lomo and More

airfare sales 04.20.09 | 8:07 AM ET

Susan Boyle is in my opinion one the most interesting person I have seen recetly. I hope she will succeed :-)

Mary Arulanantham 04.21.09 | 1:33 AM ET

I too was entranced with Susan Boyle. Who knows if she will be able to beat out all the other rabble that passes across those contest shows (its ok, I like American Idol too), but I will be looking forward to her cd.

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