Writer Patrick Symmes is a keen cyclist. So when his bike was stolen from one of New York’s most expensive blocks he set out on a mission to find the culprit. As Patrick tells host Marnie Chesterton, he caught one of the bike thieves red-handed, but was disappointed to find the man was no criminal mastermind. [Continue Reading]
Dispatches – cbc radio: The Cuban State Diet
Patrick Symmes recently lost a little weight, but gained a lot of insight into how Cuba works. He went there to live for a month on the same rations most Cubans have to live on: about $15 American worth of food. Put another way: most of us would be licking the crumbs from the cookie [Continue Reading]
