Hello all — and Happy 2012! I don’t know about you, but I always feel a certain sense of relief once the holiday marathon is over. The feasts and the gatherings, the indulgent desserts, the sheer volume of traditions that must all be observed, the late nights with one more bottle of red wine than [...]
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It’s been a lovely December – kicking off with a few days in Rome, then back home for the rest of the month. We’ve gotten some much-needed rain, and today was a gorgeous blue sky break from the last few gray days. I scored this fantastic Canvas ceramic serving bowl for Christmas (thanks, Dad) that I’ll soon [...]
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There was a time when I could drink margaritas with the best of them. (Rocks with salt, please.) But somewhere along the road, it became clear to me that the intensity of my post-margaritas headache was in direct proportion to the amount of sugar syrup, limeade, Cointreau or whatever combination of sweet components was in those [...]
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Once upon a time, my boyfriend in Milan had me nearly convinced that the jumbo-sized panettone that arrived at my doorstep every Christmas was from his mother… Now, I had met his mother. Once. And she had scared me to death — an effect that Italian women of a certain age still have on me, for the [...]
Read more →On a personal, non-wine-and-food note. I absolutely loved Christopher Hitchens and am completely sad to read of his passing. He was a brilliant writer, sometimes hilariously funny, and this article sealed my crush on him for good.
Read more →As one of the new features of this site, I’m planning on publishing month-end roundups of wines that I’ve tasted over the previous few weeks that, for whatever reason, just didn’t fit into other posts. Think of them less as stragglers or misfits, and more as wines that were just too good to leave out! I’m [...]
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