Co-Founder and Owner of Sicily’s First Didactic Agriturismo Interview ©2012 During the months of October and November the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development  of the Region of Sicily organized five week-long press trips to different predominantly rural...

 PRAGUE’S FIRST CZECH CHEFS EACH WITH A MICHELIN STAR text ©2012 In March, 2012 the prestigious Michelin Guide: Main Cities of Europe awarded two restaurants in Prague: La Degustation Bohême Bourgeoise and the Alcron of the Hotel Radisson Blu Alcron one Michelin star...

  FLANDERS’ MOST ADVENTUROUS CHOCOLATIER Text © 2012 Our tastes in food are closely connected to our childhood; what are your first memories of food? DP: Food is my life.  Anyone’s connection to food is influenced by their parents, their grandmothers. I think...

Author’s Note: Several months after my colleague and good friend, Phyllis Méras, published here her all-inclusive story, “In Search of Belgian Chocolates,” I too traveled to Flanders thanks to the New York office of the Flanders Tourist Board. My assignments were to...

  THE FIRST FLEMISH CHEF AWARDED 3 MICHELIN STARS   text and photos ©   Thanks to the New York office of the Flanders Tourist Board, last May Lucy Gordan, the Rome Bureau Chief of Epicurean-Traveler.com, visited Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp and Mechelen. In Bruges...

  Text © 2012 On February 5th, Felice Sgarra, a Pugliese from Andria, was in Milan to participate in Identità Vent’anni, a day dedicated to chefs who are not yet 30 years old.  He just made it under the wire because the next day was his 30th birthday and that of...

  The New President of “Jeunes Restaurateurs d’Europe” in Italy text © 2012   Andrea Sarri’s restaurant “Agrodolce” is situated on the seafront at the quay of the port of Oneglia in the Ligurian city of Imperia on the Italian Riviera.  It boasts one Michelin...

 ©2012 This hand-clapping rhyme is recited by thousands of English-mother-tongue children to count and eliminate fists when it comes to choosing who will be “it” — the leader, the hunter, the counter at the start of an outdoor game.  Instead the number 4,000 refers to...

AUTHORS of FEEDING THE DRAGON Interview ©2011 While in 2001 Nate Tate, today aged 30, was one of the first Texas college students to study abroad at Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University, his younger sister Mary Kate, 26, visited him there, and the two developed a...

THE PIONEER OF AUTHENTIC ITALIAN CUISINE IN USA   Marisa and Tony May   photo by Robert Caplin text ©2011 by Lucy Gordan  Tony May has been in the restaurant business in New York City for half a century. He is a “gastronomic ambassador and professor,” a living legend,...