Are you friends with me on Instagram? I’m rossosara. Are you a subscriber to my newsletter? I’m also on Twitter @rosso.  My other half is now a sommelier through the AIS (Associazione Italiana Sommelier) and that means that wine has now, more than ever, been a big part of our culinary experience. Since we only got a car 3 years ago, [...]

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Are you friends with me on Instagram? I’m rossosara. Are you a subscriber to my newsletter? I’m also on Twitter @rosso.  Here’s some of the favorites I’ve seen lately in Italy. Favorite work-turned-reward in Italy: Not only was cutting my own chocolate so cool, the cremino from Domori was so delicious and my favorite thing from an evening [...]

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January is probably my least-favorite month. For the productivity freak inside me, it’s great because I’m full of ideas, lists, and empty notebooks. But for the animal being inside, I’m longing for sun, and not gray, or rain, or even snow. Since I moved to Milan, I have grown to dread January – all of [...]

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I started my Year in Review in Pictures in 2009 (2011‘s review, 2010‘s review, 2009‘s review) as a complement to my stats-heavy Year in Review full of tools, sites, and statistics I started in 2006 (here’s 2011 – 2012′s coming soon). I used to review what happened on this site in the calendar year but I find [...]

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I’m back from a trip to Morocco (a few photos from that trip already online on my mobile photo blog, or rossosara on Instagram - add me!) and I’m now in Puglia for New Year’s. Some of the scenes lighting up my last days of 2012: Yummy pettole, fried golden dough

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