by Suzanne Ball | Jan 25, 2017 | Food, Food blog
“So… Italian gelato. Take the deliciousness of a regular ice-cream cone, times it by a million, then sprinkle it with crushed-up unicorn horns.” (Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato) Gelato. Just thinking about it causes me to break out in...
by Lucy Gordan | Jan 22, 2017 | Food, Food blog
Just over two weeks after the controversial opening of a McDonald’s in a Vatican-owned building just outside St. Peter’s Square, on January 16th the popular fast food chain started to distribute some 1,000 free meals to the homeless from here. Ironically, this “act of...
by Lucy Gordan | Jan 11, 2017 | Food, Food blog
I’m culture editor of the monthly print magazine Inside the Vatican. In the May 2015 issue I published an interview with Monsignor Pasquale Iacobone, the Holy See’s Special Delegate for “Expo”, the World’s Fair with a food theme hosted in Milan from May 1 to October...
by Adam Jacot de Boinod | Jan 7, 2017 | Travel, Travel blog
[raw]Kúpa-mandúka is the local phrase for one who never leaves his home, one ignorant of the world (literally, a frog in a well). But, for me, I knew Sri Lanka would be enriching and had to visit. I came first to the Wallawwa (www.thewallawwa.com). It’s just outside...
by Betsi Hill | Jan 1, 2017 | Wine & Spirits, Wine & Spirits blog
Quantum Leap (noun): an abrupt change, sudden increase, or dramatic advance. A quantum leap is what vintners Jill Ramsier and David Forrester took when they opened Quantum Leap Winery. Located in Orlando, Quantum Leap certainly represents a “dramatic advance” in...
