Nuts about food

    More questions from a five-year old.   Son: "Mommy, what does your saliva taste like?"   Me: "...". ...

    While we say that we are green with envy in English, the Italians associate positive feelings with this color, verde speranza  ...

    An Italian saying goes l'Epifania tutte le feste porta via. Indeed, in many European countries the holiday season officially ...

    My birthday came and went last week. I would have added quietly, but have you noticed how birthdays are on steroids since the ad...

  We are back home from our  Easter holiday , which was filled with snow, skiing, friends, laughter and more eggs (in all forms and ...

      To puff or not to puff? That is the question (well, maybe not if you are Hamlet, but most certainly when it comes to pita bre...

You may have noticed I am not partial to food fads. I do not bake macarons (there is an element of fear, I admit it, but there is...

We get inspiration for our meals in in a variety of ways. 1) There is the inpsiration you get from the leftovers in your fridge or you...

There is one thing that unites us all, wherever we are from. I am not going to get all philosophical or peace-and-lovey on you (not that ...

The month of June was a pretty rainy, cool month here in Milan. It got a little frustrating after the tenth storm in a row at exactly 5.30...