Tiana Kai

I found lots of time on my hands in August, a month when everyone leaves the city heat and flocks to the seaside or mountains. It was the perfect time…

Growing up around the water, you would think I would have more pictures of harbors, but being born in Hawai’i and raised in Miami I guess you tend to just…

When the day has been too long and we want to unwind and relax, we cook at home and try a new bottle of wine. I’m not a wine connoisseur to say…

  I’ve been staying at the family mountain house by the seaside in Viareggio off and on since July. No neighbors, just lots of tomatoes, cotogna, arugula (too many other…

This thing is huge, hard and sour. It’s a mela cotogna (quince). I’ve never seen it, tried it or heard of this fruit before. I first came across it a…

I love the word for gym in Italian, it’s palestra. Not sure why I like it, but it just seems to fit. Coming from Miami, where there are an overabundance of…

  Since we had a very small wedding of 30, I wanted to send post-wedding cards out to family and friends so they knew we were thinking of them. Our…

Flowers *Photos courtesy of Studio Bonon Photography Flowers are a main visual for any wedding, so I saw it as the perfect opportunity to get creative. I didn’t want a tightly…

Traditional Italian wedding cakes are simple, coated in powdered sugar or fresh fruit and filled with some kind of cream. Typically, you would choose from crostata di frutta (fruit tarte), millefoglie (thousand…