Juicy Post: Tomatoes & Pomodori

6 months ago

It’s The Season One of my husband's favorite KD posts features the Early Girl Tomato, and since it has had…

Ingredients: Checking The Oil Gauge

6 months ago

Freedom To Fry Now that I reside in a country whose citizens feel that they gave birth to olive oil…

Italy Insider: Bar Hopping At Breakfast

6 months ago

 Buongiorno! I was never a big fan of evening bar-hopping in my moderately misspent youth.  From my very brief experience,…

Food For Thought: Food Deserts & Forests

6 months ago

A Warning Fast Food Nation, published in 2001, was one of the first books we carried in the shop that…

Juicy Post: Our Chocolate Chip Cookie Patrimony

7 months ago

Our National Heritiage There are several  things about the USA that are misunderstood over here in the land of gelato,…

Food For Thought: Pivotal Women of Italian Cuisine

7 months ago

Morning Reading My son-in- law bitterly misses the ritual of a morning newspaper in his hands. There must be something…

Italy Insider: Caminetto D’Oro/Twinside

7 months ago

Che Si Mangia?* One of my hobbies is cooking. The other is eating. I probably should take up  knitting again…

Ingredients: Pretenders To The Throne

8 months ago

Leaving McCormick When I stumbled onto the history of Vanilla and the debt that is owed to Edmond Albius, I…

Ingredients: Vanilla’s Bittersweet History

8 months ago

Gelato Concerns One of the things I found to fret about when we moved to Bologna was how serious a…

Italy Insider: Il Mercato Ritrovato

8 months ago

I am a sucker for farmers markets.  When we were first married and rented part of a former stable on…