Extra! Extra!–My best friend, Rebeca, and I have a few traditions in our lives. Most involve eating, drinking and being silly. Each May, during Piccolo Spoleto, we call an official girls’ day and roam around downtown Charleston. We hit the streets and art stalls, lusting over shoes at Bob Ellis, woodcuts by Kent Ambler (I [...]
ASHEVILLE, NC–12 Bones’ outer beauty is nothing to brag about. Sitting in the middle of a gravelly parking lot on the river’s edge of the River Arts District, she looks like a rundown gas station whose prime purpose has long passed. But one whiff of her smokey perfume as it rolls out the front door [...]
EN ROUTE TO PARIS– Our Italian holidays ended with our stay in Venice. After ten days of fresh pasta, pizza, bread, shellfish, olive oil, prosciutto and gelato, we’re off the red sauce and flying high above the snowy alps on our way to our next European culinary adventure–the capitol of gastronomic perfection, Paris. Reflecting on [...]
VENEZIA– Venice in all of its venerable beauty, is breathtaking. Its buildings seem to rise up out of the water where their foundations have been soaking for hundreds, if not thousands of years. The city has a wonderful energy and elegance about it. The locals carry themselves with a self-assured, privileged air of nobility; the [...]
AMALFI COAST– Here’s a final montage of some of my favorite local treats. The Pizza crust was light, thin and delicate, like a slice of savory pastry that melts on your tongue. The pasta, typically homemade, was soaked in rich olive oil and perfectly-salted sauces and it was tossed with fresh ingredients like cherry tomatoes [...]
CAPRI- We went by jet boat to Capri (COP-ri–roll the R). The sun is so powerful here; it reflects off the Mediterranean ocean in an unending pool of azure blue. It’s a quick 25-minute trip over to the island and with the wind whipping your hair and the waves bucking the boat like a wild [...]
ROMA-NAPOLI-SORRENTO-POSITANO– It took over 23 hours to transfer ourselves from South Carolina to the Amalfi Coast. We flew to Newark, where we had a five-hour layover, to Rome, where we caught the treni (train) over to Central Rome, where we caught a third train to Naples, where we caught the Circumvesuvia rail down to Sorrento, [...]
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