Generally, on the 4th of July, my entire family gets dressed in red, white, and blue, grills hot dogs and hamburgers outside and, along with corn on the cob, watermelon, and potato…
Coffee Granita
Siena… che città bella! Especially for food. Siena is in the heart of Tuscany, home of bistecca fiorentina, ribollita, papardelle al cinghiale, and of course, the famous Chianti. Siena is heaven for…
Peaches
So now that I’m back in the swing of things, and I’m partway through the reformatting of the site (so exciting!), and even though next month is going to bring in the…
I’m Back!
6 months later, I’m back! It’s been forever, I know, and I’m not actually back for that long… I fell in love with France once again, and I’m finally realizing that lifelong…
I’m Off…
The time has come, my friends. I’m off to France for four months. I don’t know how often I’ll be able to update while I’m gone, but I’ll take lots of pictures…
Soup
I don’t know many families who eat four different kinds of homemade soup on a normal night, not to mention the night before Christmas Eve. We do. My mother, who is my…
Grocery Delivery
At the peak of the dotcom hype, I distinctly remember hearing people ooh and ahh over what was, at the time, a huge innovation: peapod.com. You would simply log on, enter what…
Charlie
I like to pretend I’m some kind of food guru, but the truth is, a year and a half ago, I was trying to no avail to get my mother to give…
Joanna
As something a little different this week, my shout out isn’t to another blog, but to another foodie, my friend Joanna, and the cheese which she thoughtfully gave me for Christmas. As…
Chili
Whoa… I guess I need to ease myself back into this. I’ve had an amazing month, both back at home in New York and in Italy (Milan and Rome). We ate some…