Yesterday commemorated the 60th anniversary of the death of Gandhi, India’s “Father of the Nation.” His relatives spread some of his ashes in the bay of Mumbai / Bombay, in the same water I saw last month. I mentioned that when I first arrived in India, I was staying in a town near Surat, Gujarat, [...]

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In preparing for World Nutella Day on Tuesday (send us your entries!), I decided to have an empirical study (and by empirical, I mean whatever I decide is obviously correct) about which fresh fruit goes best with Nutella. For you Nutella Virgins, you may use my results but I suggest you find out for yourself [...]

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For anyone that was checking my site over the weekend, there was a problem with my hosting’s database server and I was unfortunately punished. I’m sorry if you stopped by and found an error! That definitely didn’t help the case of the Januaries I had on Friday! Hopefully I should be up from here on [...]

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I was reading the Homesick Texan’s post about the Januaries, and that’s when I realized, I definitely have them! Today is the last day to comment on my Introduction to Italian Candy – Caramelle post to win free candy! Be sure to check back on Monday for the winner (who will then have to pick [...]

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We went to India to be with good friends, but we were also lucky to be able to be together for a special reason: our friend’s wedding. While in India, we also inadvertently crashed another wedding celebration while we there. In my friend’s father’s village in Gujarat, there was another wedding taking place. This time [...]

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