food

I have been a bit absent on the blog of late.  Not intentionally of course.  Part of this is due to my recent nuptials and also because my trusty MacBook cord fried, making it difficult at best to get computer…

You may remember that last April, earthquakes in Italy devastated the town of L’Aquila.  It was and still is certainly a sad event. But often times in the wake of tragedy, comes hope, inspiration and something good. Well, as it turns…

Sometimes there’s nothing more enjoyable than a big bowl of pasta topped with tomato sauce and freshly grated Parmesan cheese from Italy.  While it’s hard to decipher why we find this simple starch so addicting, it is certain that we…

You know how I feel about Italy and Italian food.  It’s love.  Always love.  And though I know quite a bit about the food in Northern and Central Italy, other than fish, lemons and limoncello that I sampled on the…

To Italian food lovers, it seems there is nothing more palatable than the idea of local Mediterranean food. The Hudson Valley,  is lucky to have such a restaurant as Gigi since 2001 which offers a seasonally changing Italian menu using…

I’m so excited to announce that Hudson Valley Restaurant Week is coming!  The fourth annual event runs from March 15th through March 28th this year.  And for the first time ever it includes Saturday nights, which is a wonderful bonus for…

We interrupt our normal Travel Photo Friday schedule to bring you something a bit more sinful and delicious today. Yep, that’s right.  It’s World Nutella Day! I have always been a fan of Nutella, but it wasn’t until a few…

For the better part of the last 5 years I have not used store bought dressing.  Nope.  Not when healthy, delicious dressing is so easy to make- and so much better for you! And no Franco-Italophile expat-wanabee would be caught…

Pizza al Taglio is Rome’s version of fast food.  In Paris, you often see locals walking around with a baguette under their arm, ripping off chunks and munching as they walk around the city.  Pizza al Taglio is Rome’s equivalent…