Food, cooking, and travel
We are leaving Rome today, heading to London before flying home to Philadelphia tomorrow. It has been a wonderful visit and we are both looking forward to coming back. While we are packing and waiting for taxis and hanging around airports, I thought I would …
When we visit Paris we always stay in a hotel on rue Didot in the 14eme arrondisement. On our street there is a Lebanese restaurant, two Sushi restaurants, an Indian restaurant, a Dominos pizza, an Italian takeaway, and four French restaurants of various types and …
There are some things one has to keep in mind when being a tourist. For example, consider the Trevi Fountain. This is one of Rome’s iconic sites, not only because it is a completely over the top baroque masterpiece, but also because it is frequently …
My true love and I are on the third day of our vacation, chilling out for a bit before heading out to dinner. At the risk of making a bit of a fool of myself, I don’t think we were prepared for just how magnificent …
So this is a follow up to Monday’s post about getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day. I finally settled for cockles & mussels steamed in a cider and bacon broth and it was delicious. I’m a sucker for mussels anyway but tasting them cooked with cider and …
I haven’t posted for a couple of days because I was getting ready for a trip to Rome. I’m flying out of Philadelphia in about an hour and a half, meeting my true love at Heathrow tomorrow morning and landing in Rome tomorrow afternoon. This …
Once upon a time I used cookbooks like an instruction manual. Obtain exactly the right ingredients listed in the recipe, measure them precisely, and then follow the instructions to the letter. That didn’t always lead to optimum results. I remember once searching in dozens of …
We had a snow day yesterday. Some kind of big storm blew up the east coast and was alleged to drop a foot or more of snow all up and down the northeast. Of course, the snowfall was much less than predicted and it was …
My ethnic heritage is more Irish than anything else but I’ve always had mixed feelings about St. Patrick’s Day. In Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day is a holy day of obligation and I can’t speak to how the Irish view St. Patrick or his day. In …
The current issue of The Economist has an article and a leader (an editorial in UK English) on preferences in grain consumption and its impact on global trade. Another example of the impact of what we eat has on the world economy (and vice versa). …