L est you think this will be the obligatory paean to all things Sicilian, after these last days spent on the island, many things are simme...

J ust so you don’t get the wrong idea, we didn’t drink and drive, and when we did, we always had a designated driver. But we always, alwa...

I ndulge me. Or rather, let me indulge you, dear reader, and share some of the plates we were offered on this recent trip to Sicily. While...

I’ m nothing, if not overwhelmed, when I step away from Italy and into Sicily. I am also liberated. Freed from thinking things are as they...

O f all the places in Italy, Sicily is the one that scares me the most. I have cancelled trips to Sicily because I was afraid something wa...

2 014 has been a crazy year for weather patterns. There seems to be controversy brewing over the quality of the 2014 vintage in Italy. I...

P osting on the fly as we head out of Palermo on our carousel around Sicily. While Palermo was mainly about food and the evolving multi-cu...

Eggplants at Mercato di Capo - Palermo F ull immersion is just what it means. We land in Palermo and drop the luggage at the hotel and h...

photo from Tim Gaiser's blog B rooklyn Guy has turned off the tap. Alice has her newsletter. Reign of Terroir has hit a drought. ...

A s we get more science on exactly who we are and where we came from via DNA mapping, we often find out we aren’t who we think we are. In my...

D ear Mom and Dad, Well I'm in Italy. I finally made it to Rome. The last week has been warm. Hotter than where I came from. Rome wa...

From the archives ~ April 8, 2007 Fishermen from Calabria, Italy - Alan Lomax I turn on the music, and Albanian chants from Calabr...

O dd how time reshapes things. In another era, one could not get anyone on the line, start (or finish) any kind of business or move anythi...

“I just don’t get Franciacorta,” the tall lady muttered to her friend at a recent reception. Her friend was pouring all manner of cool wi...

I t was the winter of 2004-5. We were sitting at a table, myself with Guy Stout, Drew Hendricks and James Tidwell. I hadn’t yet started t...