My first post since all of our worlds got turned upsidedown because of Covid19. To be honest, the timing for a world-wide lockdown was incredibly uncanny as I decided to shift the perspective of my blog from comfort food to food exploration and curiosity, inspired […]
I distinctly remember my first true words in Italian spoken (with a decent amount of self-confidence, and a whole lot of American accent) – little did I know the first three words I spoke would mean so much more than it’s strange, but literal translation… […]
Allora, it’s been nearly a month since I’ve moved from the northwest of one country to the northwest of another country halfway across the world. Now, my appetite to learn Italian comfort food might be just as serious as my wish to be swept away […]
I’ve never been much of the measuring-type of cook – probably explains my irrational fear of dough and baking. Call it laziness, lack of discipline, or maybe extremely accurate-eyeballing superpower, but I rarely invite measuring cups and spoons to the party. However, no one told […]
Thank you all for sharing your scary, intimidating, I-love-to-eat-it-but-hate-to-cook foods. It’s nice to know I’m not alone in this department. I avoided making dishes involving rolling out dough because I was simply raised to think, “it’s just too much work.” But what is “too much […]
Conquering my irrational fear of unfulfilled, unhappy, unfluffed (no, it’s not a real word, but just go with it because I can’t think of the real word for it) bread. 😬 I’ve recently been inspired to bake sweet bread. Sweetbread (more commonly known as Hawaiian […]
One bullet train from Tokyo Station, two locomotives, and one windy bus ride later, I find myself 40 kilometers southeast of Japan’s ancient city of Kyoto, in the remote town of Wazuka. What brings me to live in a town of fewer than 3,600 people […]
My first post since all of our worlds got turned upsidedown because of Covid19. To be honest, the timing for a world-wide lockdown was incredibly uncanny as I decided to shift the perspective of my blog from comfort food to food exploration and curiosity, inspired […]
I distinctly remember my first true words in Italian spoken (with a decent amount of self-confidence, and a whole lot of American accent) – little did I know the first three words I spoke would mean so much more than it’s strange, but literal translation… […]
