I mentioned a while ago that I was going to give more information on the designer who made the graphics for my website. Her name is Cindy Loon. We were best friends all through junior high school and high school and were so ridiculously inseparable that people thought we were sisters. We looked alike, dressed [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Giving props!
Posted in amici on May 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Misguided
Posted in food, Milan on May 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Translating a guide book serves as a pretty good yardstick for measuring how well you know your town. I’ve been working on translating a guide to Milan for the last couple of weeks, and it makes me realize not so much that I don’t know my fair city (of the recommended activities, I’d done them [...]
Fast food, slow recovery
Posted in bambini, food on May 20, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Remember how I was extolling the virtues of my son’s preschool a couple of weeks ago? I’m still very happy with it, but the one major downside of preschool is that the kid picks up (and brings home) germs. Next to the lunch menu, the school posts the illnesses going around. About a month ago, [...]
Mother’s Day Malfunction
Posted in bambini, food on May 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
On the weekends, we have a sort of breakfast non-routine. I eat cereal and drink hot tea while my son drinks his bottle of milk. My husband usually checks his email and eats nothing. Mid-morning, those two head out to the bar in the piazza and have “cappuccini” (a real cappuccino for my husband, “milk [...]
Easy chicken cutlet
Posted in bambini, food on May 6, 2010 | 6 Comments »
When I was pregnant with my son, I thought a lot about whether I’d raise him vegetarian since I am vegetarian. I decided that because my vegetarianism stems from being a really picky eater as a child (the thought of eating an animal has always made me gag) – and not from moral reasons – [...]
Inspiration comes from the strangest places
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I spent my morning here yesterday. It’s the hospital where I gave birth. The first time I walked into this place, I was carrying a cup of urine in a plastic farmacia bag and had no idea where I was supposed to go from here. The informazioni desk was closed. Anything you must do in [...]
What’s the conventional wisdom on this?
Posted in bambini, food on May 4, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The blogs I like the most give me a sense of the writer, what he or she really thinks and the things that really go on in his or her life. Typically, the more personal a post is (without taking the oversharing to an extreme, of course), the more interesting it is to me. When [...]
All first course, no second course
Posted in bambini, food on May 3, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Isn’t that the story of my (Italian) life? See, first course in Italy is the carbs – usually pasta or rice. Second course is usually meat or fish. Since I’m a really strange eater for some inexplicable reason that goes way back to my early childhood vegetarian who doesn’t eat fish, much cheese or dairy, [...]
