Recipe: Chiara’s Pear Torte ~ Torta di Pere della Chiara
I bake cakes in winter. Pies in summer. Every fruit has its season and Chiara’s Torta di Pere is this winter’s best-loved.
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Recipe: Classic Sabayon
My first visit to the Hacienda de San Rafael in Seville, Andalucia, was wrapped in mystery.
Andalucia to the Algarve: Bringing a flat map’s territory to life
You may have already read information about our trip to Andalucia and the Algarve and may even have downloaded an itinerary for our Seville program, with a touch of Portugal in between. An itinerary is like a map — nothing like the territory itself when it comes alive in living, …
Pollara Poetry in Salina
A place to swim off the boat under the crater of Pollara on Salina, in the Aeolian Islands. While we swam, Fulvio made a delicious pasta with a lampuga (mahi mahi) sauce. The salt water felt so good on our skin. It was refreshing, but not cold and felt good to move.
Farm Dinner with Chef Grant Buchanan
Everyone has a halo around their head. It’s not the Last Supper, but anytime you put a lot of people at a long table, it feels biblical, epic and like no place you’d rather be. Thank you chef Grant Buchanan, a transplanted southerner, for a splendid (farm dinner) meal with a Parisian-Longmontian touch.
Community is Everything
Matching the tablecloth at Cure Organic Farm where we are waiting for the guests to come back from touring the farm with Anne and Paul Cure. Cured Boulder has prepared some amazing summer dishes featuring Anne’s squash blossoms with burrata, her greens with a roast carrot vinaigrette and their organic pork roulade stuffed with braising greens, house ricotta and pine nuts in celebration of #slowfoodnations …
Anchovy Dreams
Soon we will be sailing the islands off the Bay of Naples and the Amalfi coast again. My mouth is watering for these staple little fish. I’m having anchovy dreams.
A Toast to Fabrizia Lanza
A tribute to Fabrizia Lanza for having the foresight and creativity to manifest her ideas into projects that inspire.
She’s a bit of a professoressa and loves to teach.
My Kind of Lunch
Pimiento di Padron, fried shrimp pancakes, and a big salad with those darling little gem lettuces, endive, and not just any bacon, but fried Iberico! Did you know they drink mostly beer in southern Spain??