Category: cooking

VISITING THE WEST COAST

The first week in September we traveled to Seattle for an overdue visit with family. Instead of going to a hotel we decided to make our accommodations through AirBnB, a website for people in the private sector to list, find and rent…

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JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE

It was a perfect weekend to visit a friend who lives in Rockaway Beach, Queens. She didn’t live here in October 2012 when Superstorm Sandy, a category 3 hurricane, hit this beach community. The storm did major damage to Cuba…

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NAPLES

When the cruise was over we disembarked at a port an hour train ride from Rome, where we would then catch another train and travel down to Naples. I’d miss the quiet evenings of sitting on deck watching the sun…

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PASTRY OF BELEM AND JET LAG

Our vacation is over, we’re back in NYC and I’m seriously jet lagged. I’ve heard that it takes one day for each hour time difference. So, I should be fine by the time I post this. But meanwhile, I wake…

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EARLY MORNING WALK

Finally it’s mid March and I think we’ve been released from the ferocious grip of winter. Well, I hope that’s the case. There may be more snow, early spring flurries that will seem tame compared to the storms that we’ve…

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BEATING THE WINTER BLAHS

I’ve stopped complaining about something I can do nothing about, in particular, the weather. In every storm I believe there is a rainbow waiting to come out, and I keep looking for the brighter side to this winter that seems to drag…

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