New here? Check out “Best Of” for some top posts, subscribe to my RSS feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MsAdventuresinItaly or receive email updates!The Field Guide to Cookies Book Tour is still going on….but in the meantime I’ve been working on a new project that’s not related to food, to feed the other side of my life: [...]

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An update from last year’s Italian Summer Music 2007 roundup: Check out my Italian Music section to immediately buy some popular albums!
I usually use the FestivalBar CDs as a bit of a barometer for the Italian hits [...]

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Thanks to Andrew for letting me host! Next month’s DMBLGIT is being hosted by Habeas Brulee.
Yesterday I introduced you to the judges! Today, straight to the results! (If you’re arriving late, be sure to check out ALL the entries in the DMBLGIT gallery - page 1 and page 2)
With more than 100 entries, I [...]

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We know that Does My Blog Look Good in This? is all about the photos of that month, but I thought I’d take you a bit “behind the scenes” and introduce you to this month’s judges! Check out the DMBLGIT gallery (page 1 and page 2) before we announce the winners tomorrow!
I begged and pleaded [...]

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Last year on this day, there was no Earth Day post. Instead, I was busy migrating my site to this domain, msadventuresinitaly.com.
Some posts and sites I noticed yesterday for Earth Day! Scroll down to see who won the comment giveaway!

Intelligent Travel’s Earth Day Every Day post
National Geographic has a Green Guide magazine and blog and [...]

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I am honored to be hosting the peer-judged food photography contest Does My Blog Look Good in This? - April 2008 edition! You can find the results from March’s edition on Cookbook Catchall.
If you don’t know anything about me, a brief introduction: I’m an American living in Italy since 2003, and I like to [...]

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With a surprise stuffed cheese crust.
I love using eggs in savoury tarts, like Pumpkin Savoury Tart or Savoury Herb Tart, but this time I wanted to focus on the vegetables and include a little surprise for later.
I like making these open-faced so that you can fit as much as you want in them [...]

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This past weekend (after recovering from the Girl Geek Dinner) we woke up to a sun that was blindingly bright and screamed “Springtime!” After another mild winter here in Italy, it’s a bit too much to hope that spring is already here, but for the weekend, we all believed it.
I walked around with only a [...]

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