Champagne Celebration
Celebrating the recent purchase of my beach home with a magnum of Veuve Cliquot champagne got me wondering how champagne …
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Nationalism in Wines
This week marks the 45th anniversary of a landmark event in the wine world. The Judgment in Paris 1976 was …
CNN Toscana
Watching the CNN series Searching Italy I never expected political rhetoric in a food show – but in today’s toxic …
CNN Milano
This week’s CNN episode is Milan, the capital of northern region Lombardy (Lombardia regione). Milano, a world-renowned cosmopolitan city, is …
CNN Bologna – Negroni
My take-away from last week’s CNN episode in Rome was the 4 kinds of pasta that shared the same ingredients …
2020 Review
A belated Happy New Year to everyone (Buon Nuovo Anno a tutti). In normal times we reflect on the past year …
Life in the Red Zone
I occupy much of my idle time during the pandemic learning Italian which includes weekly Zoom lesson with Giulia (la …
