Cocteau : L’Oisivete me fatigue! (Idleness tires me!)
Cocteau : L’Oisivete me fatigue (Idleness tires me) ! Read our previous posting at “Salade Nicoise et cuisine nissarde : The best of Provence and Italy!” Whenever we rent an apartment in a large city somewhere in the world or stay for an extended period , as we have done a number of times so …
Cookbooks : The best Italian cookbooks of all times!
Cookbooks : The best Italian cookbooks of all times! There are two Italian cookbooks everyone should have on their kitchen shelf and I really wish I had known about them earlier in my life. I love Italian food and I regard Italian cuisine as one of the top cuisines of the world. Why did it…
The autonomous polity of Mount Athos!
Mount Athos. In 1960, Greek shipping magnate Yannis Carras, aboard his three-mast 58-meter schooner yacht Carita (later renamed Argonaftis), decided to cruise north to the Mount Athos peninsula of the Halkidiki region of Greece to celebrate the 1,000 year anniversary of the establishment of monasteries around Mount Athos, I am instinctively intrigued by any…
Fine Dining at The Broadmoor’s Romantic Penrose Room
Chef de Cuisine Maxwell Robbins’ Divine Tasting Menu at the Broadmoor’s Romantic Penrose Room! Maxwell Robbins, Chef de Cuisine at The Broadmoor‘s award-winning fine dining signature restaurant, the Penrose Room, has impeccable credentials. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., Robbins interned under culinary legend Eric Ripert of Le Bernardin, and…
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