by Susanna Gaertner | Mar 24, 2016 | Food, Food blog, Recipes
For a last-minute entertainment emergency, you might have use for this fast yet fancy pasta. It will take you no more than 15 minutes to put this together! You can use any short-cut pasta but I like campanelle, or “little bells.” Other favorites are gemelli (twins),...
by Noreen Kompanik | Mar 3, 2016 | Food, Food blog
Located on Georgia’s picturesque St. Simon’s Island, this seafood restaurant was a not-to-be missed highlight of our visit to this award-winning Golden Isle. As one island resident proclaimed to a couple browsing the menu outside the restaurant “Trust me. If you only...
by Connie Pearson | Mar 1, 2016 | Food, Food blog
The Bluegill Restaurant has been serving oysters, alligator, shrimp and many varieties of Gulf fish continuously since 1958, with only brief interruptions for repairs after hurricanes. The exterior is deceptively unassuming, but step inside and you will be swept into...
by Connie Pearson | Feb 24, 2016 | Food, Food blog
Discovering Fisher’s nestled in the Orange Beach Marina on Alabama’s Gulf Coast is akin to finding an unblemished Junonia shell washed up on the nearby white sandy shoreline. Rare. Unexpected. Exhilarating. Fisher’s is in a gorgeous setting with a...
by Lucy Gordan | Jan 22, 2016 | Food, Food blog
When I first arrived in Rome in 1972 as a young bride, I could count the number of “foreign” restaurants on one hand. Now I only remember three: French “Charly’s Saucerie” between the Colosseum and St. John Lateran, Japanese “Hamasei” downtown near Piazza di Spagna,...
by Susanna Gaertner | Dec 23, 2015 | Food, Food blog, Recipes
Here’s another take on a seasonal favorite. This is more of a bread than a cake; the slices want to be buttered! This recipe calls for butter instead of oil and is delicately ginger flavored. I always add more ginger, or grate in a touch of fresh. Nuts add vital...
by Lucy Gordan | Dec 22, 2015 | Food, Food blog
Panettone translates as “a large loaf of bread”. Actually, it’s a large sweet bready cake with various creamy fillings, raisins and candied fruits; its dome’s covered with toppings of different flavors. Panettone’s origins probably date to the Roman Empire:...
by Lucy Gordan | Nov 23, 2015 | Food, Food blog
New Year’s Eve is Saint Sylvester’s Night. If an east wind is blowing, it promises a calamitous next twelve months. Roman-born Pope Sylvester I was pope from January 31, 314 to his death on December 31,,335. He is buried in Rome’s Catacombs of Priscilla. During his...
by Susanna Gaertner | Nov 10, 2015 | Food, Food blog
Here are some tips, tricks, and shortcuts that I have come across or invented in the course of my foodie journey, ones that I think readers may enjoy. While I make every effort to give credit where it is due, many of these ideas may have become so much a part of my...
by Jan Ross | Oct 24, 2015 | Food, Food blog
There is a long list of reasons why you should visit the amazing Adventures on the Gorge. Located in the startlingly beautiful New River Gorge in the Appalachian Mountains of southern West Virginia, which is part of the New River Gorge National Park, it’s not only in...
by Lucy Gordan | Oct 21, 2015 | Food, Food blog
In the last scene of Billy Wilder’s 1959 American comedy film, “Some Like it Hot”, starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis, Jerry played by Jack Lemmon gives a long list of reasons to Osgood played by Joe E. Brown why they can’t marry. Osgood dismisses...
by Lisa Richardson | Oct 16, 2015 | Food, Food blog
“Coastal Italian” is an inviting descriptor for the restaurant on the top floor at Wall and Girard. So I went twice. Initially, we were a group of journalists hosted for Saturday lunch at Catania. The streets were blocked off for the La Jolla Art and Wine Festival. ...
