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Adam Roberts
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The Inaugural Amateur Gourmet Podcast! (Wednesday Wade-Through #1)
Well how could I resist? Apple’s newest iTunes allows you publish podcasts which you can create on Garageband. For those not in the know, Podcasts are like homespun radio shows. Usually they’re music-based but why not a food based one? Enter moi. In this inaugural episode we tackle: – Julie Powell’s Op-Ed piece and Bruce…
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Greece is the Word (Rhodes & Santorini)
Prologue: Greece Lightning In 6th Grade our literature teacher, Mrs. Darman, rewarded us for our hard work studying mythology by having the Sybil visit our class. No, not Sybil as in schitzophrenic Sally Field, but “The Sybil”: the Greek fortune-teller who would see your future, write it down on a piece of paper, tear it…
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It’s Dulightful, It’s Dulicious, It’s Dubrovnik!
Croatia never occurred to me as a place I’d one day visit on vacation. I am a huge failure when it comes to geography and history, and so I approached our day in Dubrovnik, Croatia with vague memories of news reports involving war and bombings. Then I confirmed that in my Lonely Planet Mediterranean Europe…
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We Open in Venice
Ah, Venezia. The sinking city. City of pigeons. Merchant of. The list goes on… Like nirvana or an ivy-league school, getting into Venice takes work. Especially when your family has close to 11 suitcases. We left New York on Thursday night, July 7th, and flew on Delta across the Atlantic and landed early on a…
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My Mediterranean Summer Adventure: A Prelude
“Why do the wrong people travel, travel, travel When the right people stay at home? What peculiar obsessions Inspire those processions Of families from Houston, Tex, With all those cameras around their necks? They will take a train Or an aeroplane For an hour on the Costa Brava, And they’ll see Pompeii On the only…
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Ciao Europe, Buongiorno America!
Cue the trumpets, start the parade…I have returned! And I am exhausted! It feels SIX HOURS LATER right now…do you know how late that is? 1:25 AM in Italy time! Outrageous! My trip was awesome and I can’t wait to tell you all about it. Thanks to Lisa for her awesome substitution job and if…
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Raspberry Bar-ret By, Lisa
It might seem to you that all I make is dessert. I could pretend like that’s not true, but let’s face it – I like me some sugar. I’ll try to make some actual food tomorrow so you don’t worry about my nutrient intake, but I can’t make any promises. Tonight’s dessert comes to us…
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Firing It Up Banana Style By, Lisa
Well gourmet readers, it hasn’t been an easy week to be the Amateur Gourmette. My computer is still not cooperating with me, which is sad because there are actually some decent food pictures on there (and I didn’t even run out of camera batteries!). On top of that bothersome obstacle, last night my internet wasn’t…
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Celebrate Your Country*, Your Neighborhood and Your Grandparents at Le Zie (*if your country’s Italy)
My grandparents are here, at this very moment, sleeping behind me in my bedroom while I blog to you from my new home on the couch. This is our temporary set-up while I prepare to leave for Italy (I leave on Thursday). They’ll be housing here for the next three weeks: caring for my cat…
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Feast Like An Indonesian at Bali Nusa Indah
There are two ways to approach an evening with friends. The first is to plan everything in advance: the meeting time, the dinner time, the movie time. These types of plans are usually made by what psychologists refer to as “anal personalities.” In other words: me. It took a great deal of restraint to resist…
