DEAD CHEF

Last year, my sister visited from Italy, and I took her to a beloved neighborhood coffee place. We placed our order for two espressos, and t...

At the end of last year there was a resurgence of articles questioning the feminist or anti-feminist nature of home cooking. The debate i...

In late July, my family spent a week in Fenwick Island, a lovely coastal town sandwiched between the romantic charm of Ocean City, MD  and t...

INVASION OF THE MICROBIOME SNATCHER Over the past year or so, I've be reading more and more reports about how science is now examin...

The world's heaviest Ferrero Rocher Usually, I don't watch soccer. The reason being that 1) I never really cared and 2) I was sc...

You might have heard of a pop-up cat café in opening on Thursday in New York . Cat cafes are popular in Japan (although I've read they o...

As promised, here's another look at the unspoken rules that govern Italian life. In this post, I'll discuss privacy, or personal spa...

Ever since I moved to the United States, I am regularly confronted with the strangest assumptions about my Italian lifestyle. Everything fro...

Italy is a food-centric nation whose inhabitants are either too smug to eat anything foreign or extremely happy to try anything new because,...

The rest of of the world views Italy as a weirdly-shaped peninsula whose inhabitants live without the least concern for rules, responsibil...