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 …

December 12: The Virgin of Guadalupe

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 …

February 23, 2011

As it fell on a holy-day, And vpon an holy-tide-a, Iohn Dory bought him an ambling nag, To Paris for …

February 16, 2011

While writing my brief “Gherkins & Tomatoes” blog post, “Cookbooks for a Desert Island, or an Autumn Afternoon,” I thumbed …