July 2010
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June 2010
4 posts
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“the future of gastronomy is nothing without an ethic that involves a discipline...”
– Kelly Donati
Jun 2nd
May 2010
5 posts
May 15th
book of love →
I really can’t stop listening to this song. I can’t help that I’m a sucker for singer-songwriters with acoustic guitars and loping vocal harmonies. Zach calls it my ‘sad music’ even though it’s not sad. Some of it is sad, but some of it is just pretty and melodic and grainy enough to really feel like I’m sixteen and sitting with a crowd of my nerdy friends...
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April 2010
8 posts
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“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to...”
– Julia Child
Apr 7th
Apr 7th
love at first sight
I’ve got a new sweetheart. I’ve long been a sucker for fenders and a chain guard, but it was the mismatched wheels that really did me in. She’s a bit rough around the edges, it’s true, but I think that she’s got a few miles left in her.  Best of all? She’s all mine. 
Apr 6th
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
–  Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Apr 5th
Easter Monday
Hello loves. Buona Pasqua! Happy Easter! I’m sorry for the lack of posts the past few weeks. Hopefully this carrot cake will help make up for my absence. I have a good excuse though-  I spent the first week of my spring break WWOOFing on a tiny farm near the town of Bisano in the hills south of Bologna. My time on the farm was unforgettable, but I’d be lying if I said that I...
Apr 5th
March 2010
19 posts
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“Be visionaries, practice curiosity, and please, take care of the books...”
– Carlo Petrini, Founder of Slow Foodin last week’s lecture
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Back to School
I’m a student again. After five years of waiting tables, hawking bread, writing shower curtain and bakeware descriptions, pouring wine, managing a Farmstand, and soliciting food for the hungry, I’m finally a student again. Looking at what I’ve been up to for the past five years it is not at all surprising that I’m in Italy to study gastronomy. It happens that the...
Mar 21st
Mar 10th
Buona Sera
I made it to Italy. It’s so strange. All of my loved ones are at home, an ocean away and while I’m winding down for the evening- the dishes done, the kitchen lights turned down and a mug of chamomile tea- everyone else is still at work or just beginning to think about what to have for supper. Yesterday was hard. I missed my connecting flight at Heathrow and wound up sitting at the...
Mar 9th
Ciao!
In just a few hours I’ll catch a plane from DC to Heathrow and another one from heathrow to Milan-Linate. Then, I’ll ride a shuttle bus from Linate to Central Milan and then a train to Parma. Then I’ll have to figure out how to get from Parma to Colorno by bus. Hooboy. The last couple of days have been a little bit intense. Which is to say that I’ve been a panicky...
Mar 7th
Eleanor
Really exciting news here, folks! Eleanor at Pushmepullyou Design is going to be designing a blog header for my little site here. Philadelphians will recognize her work on the poster for the upcoming Philadelphia Free Library Festival in April. I’m pretty excited that she has agreed to work with me. For a little piece of Eleanor of your very own, please check out her shop.
Mar 5th
Baggage
It is not often that I quote Carrie Bradshaw, but I feel that this moment is an appropriate one: “But…where do the shoes go?”
Mar 5th
The Flea
Granted, I haven’t spent much time in New York and I’ve spent even less time in Brooklyn, but I promise that if I lived there with my sweetheart you can be sure that you’d find me on Saturdays at the Brooklyn Flea. Even the scaled-back winter version in the stunning Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower is a fantastic maze of precious and beautiful things. The Flea is a combination...
Mar 4th
Whirlwind
After saying goodbye to Zach and coming back to Maryland on Monday it started to set in a little bit. This whole quit my job, pack my life, move to ITALY thing finally started to feel real in a way that no amount of visa drama or moving really did. In the past couple of days I’ve been tying up more loose ends than I ever could have imagined: canceling my cell phone, opening a Skype...
Mar 3rd
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Today's Tastes- Monday, March 1 2010
Breakfast: From Donut Plant coconut glaze/coconut cream donut, valrhona chocolate donut, Gorilla coffee Lunch: plain yogurt, frozen raspberries, granola Dinner: green leaf lettuce with apples, raw milk cheddar, toasted walnuts and vinagrette, Mom’s chicken and rice with caraway seeds and potatoes
Mar 3rd
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Today's Tastes- Sunday, February 28 2010
Breakfast: -an over easy egg, cherry tomatoes, ham, grapefruit, pineapple, and toasted baguette with nutella, and of course, Gorilla coffee Lunch: At Katz’s on the Lower East Side! -Pastrami on rye with mustard, matzo ball soup, pickles (Zach preferred the half-sours, but I liked Katz’s garlicky full-sours), seltzer Sweets: At Yonah Schimmel’s Knishery -Cherry Knish and...
Mar 3rd
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Today's Tastes- Saturday, February 27 2010
Breakfast: -Greek yogurt with vanilla almond granola and blackberries -Gorilla coffee brewed in the French press Lunch: At the Brooklyn Flea! -Mahi Mahi Fish Taco and Verde Tamale from Choncho’s Tacos -Maine Root Beer -Salted Soft Pretzel from the Sigmund Pretzel Shop -bite of Zach’s buttercream brownie from SCRATCHbread Dinner: leftovers! -salad greens with baked sweet...
Mar 2nd
February 2010
18 posts
Today's Tastes
Brunch: Zach cooked! -Broccoli Cheddar Fritatta with leftover fajita steak -Tomato Artichoke Focaccia from Buon Pane Bakery at the Union Square farmer’s market -Staymen Winesap apple, also from Union Square -Gorilla coffee brewed in the french press Afternoon: -Dark Hot Chocolate at Cocoabar Dinner: -salad greens and baby tomatoes with bottled Caesar dressing -New York pizza, half...
Feb 27th