Monthly Archives: June 2011

BOHEMIA

My roots are in Prague. Not my real hereditary-type roots — they lie somewhere in Lithuania, in some long-forgotten shtetl in the Pale of Settlement.
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HOME ALONE

It’s been a different kind of experience around here so far this summer – gustatorily, I’m talking. A new wind is a blowin’. Continue reading

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VONGOLE

Umbria is the only province in Italy that doesn’t touch the sea. However, it’s not more than an hour and a half from both the Adriatic to the east and the Mediterranean to the west and we have a fabulous fresh fish store in our village that draws from both. Continue reading

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THE BIRDS AND THE BOARS

Our flight arrived in Rome and by the time we got our luggage and passed through customs it was nearly 3:30. Continue reading

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FROM WASTELAND TO WAISTLAND

We fly to Italy in a few days and I’m feeling my traditional mixture of eager anticipation laced through with the crushing weight of my travel anxiety. Continue reading

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