Clifford A. Wright

I’d never paid much attention to Trajan’s Market, a great, semicircular complex of ruins near the Colosseum in Rome (near … Continued

When D. H. Lawrence visited Sardinia in 1921, he remarked, “There is nothing to see.…” On my own first visit … Continued

Find out why the prized pecorino called casu marzu, "rotten cheese", is banned by Italian health laws and European Union regulations.

Warnings to travelers about to visit Syria, I learned when I started planning a trip there, are plentiful—everything from caveats … Continued

The date made famous by Columbus’s voyage to America, 1492, resonated with infamy for Spanish Jews and Muslims. For nearly … Continued

The expression joie de vivre might have been invented for my dad. Harold Wright served in World War II, married, … Continued

Clifford Wright explores the vegetable beloved in Aleppo and beyond