Today the New York Times posted a story about Count Niccolò Branca di Romanico – the leading royalty of the Fernet Branca‘s family dynasty and holder of the secret recipe for the Fernet Branca digestive that has achieved a cult status with waiters & bartenders in New York, San Francisco, and it’s spreading… Did I [...]

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Some of my favorite street food shots in Thailand. I loved taking pictures in this country. I whittled down 1400 pictures to 983, and now I’m slowly sharing a few of my favorites. A lot of these shots came from our days in Bangkok, but many from other parts of Thailand – street food really [...]

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I have a big sweet tooth but I don’t really care for most pastries found in a pastry shop. I shy away from Danish pastries, cream puffs, and pies, too. I pasticcini (little pastries or petit four) Italian pastry shops are famous for, and are present at almost every birthday, office party or other event [...]

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Of all the thousands of pictures I want to share with you, this the first one I picked as it’s stayed in my mind since the day we came back from our trip to Thailand. We were wandering the crazily intense and crowded backstreets of Chinatown in Bangkok. It felt like being in Las Vegas [...]

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“Milk or Dark Chocolate?” Any email that has that as the subject line is bound to make for an interesting read. And when the mail is coming from someone working at Venchi Chocolate, that makes it that much better! When I was contacted by someone working at Venchi, who is also a reader of my [...]

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