Guest commentary by Beatrice Russo Well, I finally made the deal with Dale. He’s the sommelier that in Arthur's world is the decanter. ...

Giulio Galli and Guido Folonari, planning for the future. This one is easy. Recently, I worked with Giulio Galli, who has a little jewel of...

Wine Decanter with Developer , from MoMa store.

I had to laugh. I was back in El Paso, Texas, coming down the stairs of the hotel. On the floor was a fortune. I stopped to take a picture o...

Click on cartoon to enlarge Ziff’s “true story", as told after hours, over a partial bottle of Monfortino. One night this week a table...

Guest commentary by Beatrice Russo I ran some of the mail I was holding over to the IWG. He told me he was going to Fort Worth and if I had ...

Photo by Owen Kanzler Marinated olives, roasted peppers, finocchiona, cold pasta salad, fagiolini e tonno in insalata and ricotta cookies. ...

Click on cartoon to enlarge Just when you thought your job was safe, Allvin arrives. -AK

The road though the Cilento National Park hooked me. I want to linger. Forests, greenery, cool, peaceful. It is the kind of experience one c...

IWG sent a text. He is out of range for broadband, can't post latest installment on his southern swing. Apologies. Something about mount...

200th post It’s 5AM and I’m staring at cameras on a shelf, wondering which one to choose, to photograph a shadow. A €2.00 Euro coin, and pot...

Fragments of a dream. All the Italians lying by a body of water, clutching onto a little piece of coastline, in the summertime. Their though...

I was prowling about the house. It was still dark; the sun wouldn’t be up for a few hours yet. Unable to sleep, associating it with somethin...