Saints, Souls, and Haints: Honey Cakes
Some interesting comments from 1845 about All Souls’ Day, by Charles Knight in Penny Magazine of the Society for the …
Category Archives: Italy
When Life Gives You Lemons, Dream of Sorrento
Lemons — the smell of them teases out dreams of sunny days and slower ways, of light twisting through splintery …
Idylls of Cuisine #26
[A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
The Man Who Drew Too Much
As a writer for Gourmet magazine in its early years, illustrator and engraver Samuel Chamberlain introduced Americans to European food, …
Elizabeth Romer’s Chronicle of Tuscan Agriculture
Contemplating the impact of Food Network’s publishing juggernaut on the current food scene in America, I find myself turning backwards, …
The Hermetic Lady in the Palazzo: Marlena de Blasi
Cookbook author and memoirist Marlena de Blasi does not seek the limelight, preferring instead to write her books in the …
Old News: Le Ricette per Cucina Raccolte dal Principe Don Paolo Borghese
Le Ricette per Cucina Raccolte dal Principe Don Paolo Borghese (Recipes from the Collection of Prince Don Paolo Borghese), a …
Idylls of Cuisine #16
[A picture, and nothing else, for silent contemplation.]
At the Tables of the Monks: In the Beginning (Part II)
You’d never know a hermit started it all. St. Benedict of Norcia (ca. 480-547 A.D.), called the Father of Western …
At the Tables of the Monks: Part I
The hood does not make a monk. William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure Contemplating a National Geographic article from February 2009 …
