Month: November 2019

I’ve been playing with photos for a few years. At first, like everyone else, I took photos of family and vacations and friends. That evolved to “artistic” photography, mostly by happenstance. The occasional vacation photo that was a little better than the run-of-the mill, bore the shit out of everybody snapshots. That little bit of encouragement…

I have mixed feelings about truffles. I live in the land of truffles and this is truffle season. They are available almost everywhere. The local butcher has them on his counter, as does the green grocer and the local book store and wine shop. They are not cheap at 2000 euro a kilo but they…

When Alice and I first moved to Palermo, with Ringo, I noticed that most food shops had a large part of their display space devoted to pre-cooked or ready to cook foods. A typical butcher shop would have perhaps a quarter of its display with raw cuts of meat and the rest was filled with…

It’s been about 10,000 years since humans figured out that if you grind certain seeds and mix the resulting dust with water and expose that to heat, you get bread. Of sorts. With time somebody decided to make the dough but put it aside for a while, maybe the neighboring tribe came over for a…

The difference between touristing and actually living in a place is the access to the little things that tourists do not have the time to explore. The mundane stuff that brings life to a place. This post covers some of these mundane subjects and hopefully there will be more such posts in time.  Bresaola Toscana…