T aking a break from the DOCG madness and the Calabria Sequence , which got a nod from Eric Asimov and the New York Times this week. A ...

♫ Got the wings of heaven on my shoes, I'm a dancin' man and I just can't lose ♫ I t was too good to be true, that we might ha...

I was really wondering what I had just done. On the road with a young family which seemed like an eternity, only to land in some desolate t...

Click here and hit the magnify button when you get there to enlarge map.Or click on the map and enlarge...Enjoy! Note to American sommel...

“S ometimes you need to go forward to go back in time.” That was the word being transmitted to me in a dream on the 21st floor in downtown...

S ettling into Cosenza with my little American family that I dragged from Greece to Italy, our little hotel seemed empty, save for a handf...

U nbridled in ways I had never imagined. Verdant and abundant, dripping with the stuff of life. If the gods ever stepped down from Olympus...

La Vucciria and beyond... I love the legend about the Sicilian philosopher Empedocles, who at the age of 60 leapt into the abyss of Etna....

“Se Non Ora, Quando?” I was young, but there were younger. And now they like to think they run things in Palermo and Sicily. And sure, th...

From the "are we having fun yet?" dept. "Grappa Joe" Kemble - the "brains and the bag man" for the highly ...

A nother sleepless afternoon in Palermo. Tossing, the noise from outside on the Via Roma. The smoke, the heat, the life outside waiting, w...

T he first Sicilian wines I had in Palermo were in restaurants. I have memories of being in a place with family and they brought a bottle...

in search of Marsa Allah “ W here did you go? We were worried about you!” My Aunt Vitina thought something had happened to me out in th...

Love in the time of Catarratto T he front has been perched above the city for days now. Hot, humid, hovering. Stalled. All the while I hav...

A package arrived today. Sort of auspicious. A gift from a secret admirer? A promo puff piece from a P.R. company trying to sell me on wri...