Sorry for the long silence – turns out it’s hard to blog with your mouth full. We’ve eaten some fabulous food in the last few days – but it has been far more than food that just tastes good. Long, leisurely meals of traditional Piemontese fare, shared with very good friends, a couple of whom…

Not too much cooking in my house lately as we are scrambling to get ourselves ready to get out of town next week. This trip has been in the works for a while and while we have put off most of our travel this year to nurse our sick dog (yes, Zoë is still with…

This weekend my mother in law, Doris, turned 91, and we drove over to St. Louis where she had flown in from Portland to celebrate with her two younger sisters (they are 86 and 89.) The three of them were like giddy girls –just a hoot. I want some of those genes! Dinner was great…