Starting this week, for La Piazza’s new “Ingredienti Italiani” series, I’ll be sharing brief notes on favorite Italian recipe ingredients–itemized and brought to you in totally random order. Annotations will duly include: bilingual names with phonetics, useful nutrition information, cooking tips, interesting facts of folklore and food history. The entries come laced with anecdotes and [...]
I have got to be the biggest sap around. I am the one who cries during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner with the Fourth of July Fireworks Display. I am the one who cries watching Presidential Inaugurations — no matter who is President and regardless of which candidate I supported. I am the one [...]
Part Two (for Part One, about various locations in the Myrtle Beach area go here) Parks haven’t always been my thing. I used to think of myself as “outdoorsy” only when convenient. I believed there were only two kinds of people in the world: those who camp and those who don’t. Then over history [...]
Clifton Inn, Charlottesville: When visiting the University of Virginia, my daughter and I found it to be a special place to stay on our college visit road trip. My older daughter and I just returned from a trip where we visited colleges she is interested in applying next year. On the agenda this time were [...]
Dress Italian Style Editor’s Note: You may also enjoy The Surprising 2011 Summer Fashion Trends in Italy , How to (un)dress like an Italian at the Beach, and What we learn about travel fashion from Audrey Hepburn and the little black dress . White sneakers and khaki pants? American. Flip flops and shorts in the middle of [...]
So there I was, sitting in Izmir, Turkey, overlooking the sea. I love the Aegean. Yeah, in my own mind. The truth is I was not at the Aegean yesterday. I was not in Turkey. I was with Asli, a daughter of the town of Izmir and her husband Ilgaz – at their home here [...]
