UPDATE: Menu for Hope has been extended until December 31st! I’m a big fan of the Menu for Hope, and I’ve participated the past two years by donating a prize, and this year I’m honored to be the host for Europe for Menu for Hope V. Menu for Hope has gotten a bit of a [...]

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Ok, maybe not ever, but in my time in Italy, yes. And we’ve only just begun…(cue music). Now that I’ve waded into the waters of cookie swapping and dragged some Italian friends with me, I know that next year will be even easier! So many cookies, so little time. I included a little non-sugar at [...]

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You spend a lot of time interacting with people, on their blogs, on Twitter, listening to their ups and their downs, their triumphs, their fun moments, their cries for help. You support them and work with them together for causes, and you fall down on your knees when you lose one of them. And even [...]

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I have a lot of family in San Diego, and inevitably I will spend at least a part of my vacation down in SD, which I love. This summer during my stay I had the pleasure to meet up with another food blogger I had been talking to online for a while: Susan from Food [...]

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I haven’t written much about my trip to Sicily this summer, though I have lots of Sicily posts from last year’s trip. It’s also a special torture for me to write this as the first snow is hitting the ground here in Milan. Last year, there were many wildfires and so we were unable to [...]

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