http://ptleader.com en-us Wed, 22 May 2013 01:17:43 GMT Daily feed of articles http://ptleader.com/Main.asp?SectionID=163&SubSectionID=404&ArticleID=33586 All the world loves a picnic. And all the world makes picnic food – food that’s easy to carry, easy to eat and won’t give everyone food poisoning if it’s not kept on dry ice. Sandwiches, samosas, empanadas, pasties, rolls and wraps were the world’s portable foods before “fast food” was so much as a gleam in the eye of 20th-century food marketers. Columns Wed, 15 May 2013 13:00:00 GMT http://ptleader.com/Main.asp?SectionID=163&SubSectionID=404&ArticleID=33587 After a walk down to the Beach Club I encountered my friend Dick Durand hanging out at the front desk. We discussed the walk to and from his home and my home for a few minutes but finally parted when he made the sage comment that getting old and fat made the walk back up the hill harder. Who knew? Columns Wed, 15 May 2013 13:00:00 GMT http://ptleader.com/Main.asp?SectionID=163&SubSectionID=404&ArticleID=33588 Two gold plaster-of-Paris cherubs frame a painting of a baseball hurtling through space in Glenn Lyons and Christine Busch’s living room. In a corner, their baby grand piano is covered with Glenn’s hand-blown drinking glasses. I haven’t been inside this house, originally military housing, in more than 15 years. Columns Wed, 15 May 2013 13:00:00 GMT