Food Day Challenge: Cook at Home

Hi Friends, In celebration of national Food Day coming up this weekend I’ve got a fun Cooking Challenge for you. But first, in Michael Pollan’s book, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, he advised: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Wonderful words of advice that have resonated with many people around the world. However, with no disrespect to… Read More

La Cucina Profumata

It was a cuisine made of labor and patience and the love of aromatic herbs. It was a cuisine of lean folk who lived on lean land—sea cliffs and terraces hewn by hand from solid stone—and lean olive trees. — Vittorio G. Rossi, nostalgic of his native Ligurian cuisine Before traveling to Liguria, I was… Read More