Not On My Christmas List I had to make a confession recently to the RWM* as he was fretting about…
Spaghetti Without Meatballs Like many before me, I have long been in love with these deceptively simple Italian pasta dishes…
A Fat Confession The person writing this post was known in her previous life to have filled her fridge and…
Down Memory Lane With my move to Bologna, I forgot to count the Wednesdays in the month. I had a…
A New Era In Virginia Farming My older brother, a stellar NASA engineer for over 50 years and protagonist in…
Broadening My Wine Horizons One of my favorite restaurants (well actually it’s two for one) Twinside, through their Mixologist Supreme,…
Conversation Starters I subscribe to a terrific Italian language learning platform in which the creators designed a twenty four-seven Virtual…
Moving On From Margarine In May of 2023 I wrote a post with a brief history of margarine and its…
Cin-Cin I love a great cocktail but not the overdone cruise-ship concoctions described online by their habitués. Daiquiris when the…
Where Are The Eggs? A funny thing happened to me in the grocery store, when I first arrived in Bologna.…