A quick glance down the travel book aisle at Barnes and Noble is enough to make a bright-eyed globe trotter toss in his passport and run for cover. The market is inundated with guide books promising would-be buyers the best accommodations, the most recently updated dining options, the highest user reviews or the most preciously...Read More
Rome has coratella. Palermo has milza. And Catanzaro? Well, we have morzello. Originally created in the province of Catanzaro, morzello, or Morzeddhu alla Catanzarisi in Catanzaro’s dialect is a specialty dish made from cow innards. Yum. According to legend … (come on we are in southern Italy, folks you didn’t think this dish would come...Read More
All hail the Gelato Giant, the Connoisseur of the Cone, the Explorer of Epicurean Enlightenment … or, for those of you in the know … Ms. Adventures in Italy. A couple of years ago, Tour del Gelato was launched in the name of all that is good to showcase gelaterie around the world that have one...Read More
Don’t you just *love* when good things happen all at once? Like today for instance. It is Travel Tip Tuesday, it is the 15th of the month (so time for a review) and it is Part II of Hotel Reviews by guest blogger Geggie of So … What Else, What Else, What Else? It’s a...Read More
With the new limited posting schedule and Travel Tip Tuesday mandates the “15th of the Month Review” got bounced back a few days. But I think we are making up for it. Today is Part I of a Two-Part series on hotel reviews, brought to us by guest blogger, avid traveler and Burt’s Bees addict Geggie...Read More
Do you have your shoes on today? No, seriously. Do you have your shoes on? Where are your shoes? Put on your damn shoes! Ok, ok … so maybe this is a slight over-exaggeration on my part, but it’s not that far off. Today, as with every 15th day of the month from now until...Read More
I’m in love with a mushroom, and I don’t mean the smoking kind. Porcini mushrooms win the blue ribbon as the delicacy of all delicacies in my book, and I pretty sure I’m not alone. There are many types and qualities of porcini mushrooms. But, as for my love story, Porcino and I fell in love slowly, and over...Read More
