Pepper's Best Friend Some time ago, I wrote a post on the different types of peppercorns, which some readers found…
Parting Shots One of my parting wishes last year when we left for Bologna (I had several, a few not…
Snowbound We were swept along on a ski trip (although we chose to walk very mild mountain trails instead) with…
Venom In A Spray The product Roundup and its principal component glyphosate are at the center of so much controversy,…
Urban Occupations Being a city girl has some advantages. While I may not have at hand a beautiful view of…
Some Questions Since we moved to Italy, I have received a number of queries about traveling here, longer stays and…
Guilty As Charged As the daughter of a master maker of the Old Fashioned cocktail and a devoted quaffer of…
A Winter Harvest One of the joys of the dreary JanFebs (thank you Liz DiGregorio for this perfect descriptor) in…
Dissension In The Ranks I started following The Real Organic Project shortly after I began writing Kitchen Detail. Phil Barrows…
Ciao Bella I am slowly finding my way to reading serious stuff once again. Bologna was a hotbed of partisan…