This dish will soon be available at La Noce with a new name: ‘Tortellone Testarossa.’
Bologna is well known in Italy as a center–a center geographically, a place where nearly all railroads and major highways intersect, in short the center of it all. Yet to Americans, few even know about this city. One person we told thought we were going to Germany when she heard […]
We have reached our destination, the hotel Al Capello Rosso, in the center of Bologna. We were beat from the trip so slept for a while but now the second wind is coming and we’re off to meet some folks who work for the local newspaper. Our tripmates are distinguished. […]
We are in the Lounge at JFK, waiting for our 8 pm flight to Bologna. Time to read the NY Times and find out more about Terry Semel’s departure as head of Yahoo. I wrote about him a few months ago, and it didn’t take a fortune teller to predict […]
Curse you JianWei Guo! I wish you evil and bad fortune for stealing our website and trying to make money from our labors. You’ll regret what you did! I felt my blood pressure rise today after I stumbled once again on a site that is based in LuoYang, China. It’s […]
One of my favorite things about living and working in a close knit neighborhood is the intimacy between all of us, whose working lives intersect in so many ways. We do business together, drink coffee together and laugh at each other’s jokes. Mornings in the cafe, I am surrounded by […]
You enter into a freezer chamber and don this huge furry cape with gloves. Then you order a drink that comes in a piece of frozen ice shaped like a glass. You drink it in the Ice Bar, where everyone is bundled up and it is about zero. After one, […]
It’s our last full day in Denmark, and today we’ll drive up the coast to Elsinore and Kronborg castle, the setting of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Being in Scandinavia has made me think a lot about the priorities here versus what I am used to in the US. I’ve had this same […]
My mom’s very proud of her well cultivated and carefully nurtured gardens. Here she shows Cindy and I this season’s progress.
Here is a deck that Kieran Riley built for us–a compact little deck that adds a whole new dimension to hanging out at Nine Mountain Rd. So far the cats manage to squeeze between the rails and the new sliding glass door is solid and rugged. A deck is one […]
Douglas McLennan, editor of ArtsJournal.com, pops the Newspaper business right in the kisser with his thoughts on Poynteronline today. “Newspapers started out with enormous advantages going into the digital age (remember “content is King”?) and have squandered it while others innovated. To take even one small example: there isn’t a […]
