Of Language And War My summer reading list is quite different in its requirements from my post-Christmas one. Summertime reading…
It’s The Season One of my husband's favorite KD posts features the Early Girl Tomato, and since it has had…
Freedom To Fry Now that I reside in a country whose citizens feel that they gave birth to olive oil…
Buongiorno! I was never a big fan of evening bar-hopping in my moderately misspent youth. From my very brief experience,…
A Warning Fast Food Nation, published in 2001, was one of the first books we carried in the shop that…
Our National Heritiage There are several things about the USA that are misunderstood over here in the land of gelato,…
Morning Reading My son-in- law bitterly misses the ritual of a morning newspaper in his hands. There must be something…
Che Si Mangia?* One of my hobbies is cooking. The other is eating. I probably should take up knitting again…
Leaving McCormick When I stumbled onto the history of Vanilla and the debt that is owed to Edmond Albius, I…
Gelato Concerns One of the things I found to fret about when we moved to Bologna was how serious a…