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…
I am a sucker for farmers markets. When we were first married and rented part of a former stable on…
Ham Histories Since I now reside in one of the reigning ham regions of the world, I have thought about…
A Different Party Wars have unintended consequences, as anyone who reads Heather Cox Richardson obsessively will be able to appreciate.…
Defending The Sandwich Someone very close to me took exception to the anecdote in the opening paragraph of last week’s…