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Food

The best hues of brown

I just got back from the Bahamas and it was lobster season. My children speared lobsters (I don’t like to kill anything) and look at these shots of the lobsters! Every color of the brown paint wheel is here. The texture and colors are amazing and I have to say they weren’t all that bad [...]

Purple Everywhere

The gardening on the mountain sides in Amalfi is insane!  There are  rows and rows of lemon trees espaliered on trellises. The color choice of bougainvillea is purple….my favorite color!  Everyone has their own house garden and the little road side restaurants as well as the hotels here grow much of their own food.  I remember my [...]

Fresh Tomatoes and Basil

Hello from my favorite seaside restaurant tucked in a cove on the coast of Amalfi.  Squid and mozzarella, fresh tomatoes and basil.  Red wine and blue sky.  I dare say that I am happy and all is right in the world.  This is a place we came to three years ago and it is just [...]