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Can you guess what freshly dried ingredient this is!? Are you into slow cooking? Have you even heard of it before? Well, I recently spent a day cooking and eating slow…

I’m a sucker for pici pasta, especially pici al cacio e pepe Let’s be honest, eating is everyone’s favorite part about vacation, right?! Visiting museums and churches are all dandy,…

To properly tour Florence you must uncover history and art—in addition to lots and lots of food and wine—and in the churches there’s both and lots of it. I decided…

You can tell it’s summer in Florence when people start laying out like dead fish on the banks of the Arno River. I love this picture so much. Maybe because…

I’ve always heard how couples, maybe women more so than men, gain weight during their first year of marriage. According to a year of personal research I can attest that…

Besides all the skiing during winter, Briançon offers even more exciting things to do during the summer months. There’s of course hiking and biking, but how about doing something less…

Bungee jumping in the Alps was not in this summer’s plan. I thought I would be white water rafting and hiking, not free falling. The French apparently had something else in…

Hiking is definitely not new to me, so hiking the Alps shouldn’t be any harder, right? WRONG. I can hike, I swear I’ve hiked my whole life. My Mom loves…

If you’re looking for something that’ll keep you cool and more than alert all summer long then sip on a caffè shakerato. Shakerato meaning ‘shaked’, an Italian-ish word that’s quite…