Peace Time Reflection Not many dishes are named after battles. We dine on, after all, Beef Wellington, not Beef Waterloo.…
A Feast Of A Film When I wrote about Mapie de Toulouse-Lautrec in the previous post, it struck me that…
Not Sparking Joy Although I collect cookbooks, I am certainly not in the league with other cooking addicts who boast…
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Disease on a Tray While researching these Kitchen Detail posts on school lunches — not only in the U.S. but…
The Only Free School Lunch in Europe Last week I discovered that Finland is the only European country to offer…
School Lunch From Yesteryear We were having an Italian- English-American family discussion on differences in school lunches earlier this year,…
Reading And Recipes How many cooking blogs do you follow regularly? And more to the point, do you actually cook…
Misinformation Weather William Shakespeare penned his famous play Richard III (who, by the way got a lot of bad Tudor…
The Backstory In July, the Resident Wine Maniac was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor on his liver—a fortuitous (but accidental)…