SUGARPLUM VISIONS: Christmas Cookies

December 20, 2011

…visions of sugarplums danced in their heads. ~~Clement C. Moore~~ ” ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” Happy Holidays to all …

Bringing Home the Bacon … and the Onions and the Cheese: Tarte Flambée, Flammekueche, or Alsatian Pizza Bread

December 18, 2011

One cold, rainy day in October, I sat in front of a fireplace in a small weinstub, or bistro, in …

December 10, 2011

Patron Saint of Mexico and the Americas Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes once said that “…one may no longer consider himself …

July 28, 2011

(I wrote this several years ago and include it here as a tribute to the Moroccans I knew then and …

April 18, 2011

I first gazed on his ugly mug in French-influenced Morocco, more precisely at the fish market in Rabat. And like …