Slow Food
Recipe – Nut Free Granola Bars
These granola bars are not too sweet, they’re just right. Nut free and grain free and good for you. Who could ask for more?
Continue reading »Meditating with Doritoes
This food meditation just might cause you never eat another Dorito chip. Ever. No kidding, it’s that powerful. Follow the directions exactly.
Continue reading »Slowing Down in January
In January, I like to re-visit one of my favorite books: The Slow Down Diet by Marc David
Continue reading »Food & Agriculture Focus Group Tuesday 3/6/12 at LOCAL 9:30am or 7pm Please Join Us!
I’m organizing a focus group about food and agriculture for my town. Here’s the details.
Continue reading »Chocolate & Mindfulness
Eating chocolate mindfully will rock your world! Here’s a few pointers to turn a small square of good quality chocolate into a meditation that supports your health.
Continue reading »Farinata
One of my favorite meals in Torino during Terra Madre 2010 was an impromptu trip to a local pizza joint known for its farinata.
Continue reading »Green Drink: Matcha Tea
Tweet Based on the blog posts I’ve been writing about coffee in Italy, you might be surprised to learnt that I’m really not a coffee drinker. I detoxed myself off of coffee back at the turn of the century (1999) and only drink it on rare occasions when I’m driving long distances. In the weeks [...]
Continue reading »Cioccolata Calda
Tweet One afternoon while sipping my cappuccino at a nearby cafe, a delegate from Vermont introduced me to an amazing Italian drink: Cioccolata Calda. The translation is hot chocolate but it is nothing like the watery kind we drink in the US. Hot chocolate in Italy and many parts of Europe is thick, almost the [...]
Continue reading »Back to the USA
Tweet After spending 10 days far away in a country that really knows how to do food right, I’ve headed back home. A 4am cab ride to the Torino airport in which I took a short flight to Rome airport. At the Rome airport, I thought it was time to have my last cappuccino in [...]
Continue reading »Eating Adventurously
Tweet Thirteen is a tough age. You’re no longer a little kid, but you’re not yet an adult either. We took our youngest daughter, thirteen, along with us on our Italy trip for a couple of reasons. One- to show her there is a big big world out there beyond suburban NY. Two- to give [...]
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