Recipe: Classic Crêpes For Breakfast

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A Difference of Opinion There exists a cultural divide at our breakfast table - in truth probably more than one,…

Food & Film: A Toast For The New Year

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A Film For The JanFebs January - the inaugural month of that period a well versed British person referred to…

Juicy Post: An Anglo-Italian Christmas Mashup

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Christmas Cultural Differences This Christmas we had one foot in Italy and the other in England, while wearing many decades…

Celebrations: My Holy Week – The Sequel

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Peace, Quiet, Snacks Even though La Cuisine closed  in January of 2018, I still have the same tired retailer’s yearnings…

Celebrations: Praise For Passito

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Not On My Christmas List I had to make a confession recently to the RWM* as he was fretting about…

Superior Sources: The Art Of Mantecatura

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Spaghetti Without Meatballs Like many before me, I  have long been in love with these deceptively simple Italian pasta dishes…

Juicy Post: Lard vs Crisco

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A Fat Confession The person writing this post was known in her previous life to have filled  her fridge and…

Bonus Recipe: I Think We All Need A Brownie

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Down Memory Lane With my move to Bologna, I forgot to count the Wednesdays in the month. I  had a…

Food For Thought: Facts and Fables About Vertical Farming

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A New Era In Virginia Farming My older brother, a stellar NASA engineer for over 50 years and protagonist in…

Superior Sources: Tasting Terčič Wines at Twinside

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Broadening My Wine Horizons One of my favorite restaurants (well actually it’s two for one) Twinside, through their Mixologist Supreme,…