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Barcelona: Cava, Paella & a Lesson in Alchemy

The events marking the beginning and end of our time in Barcelona seemed all too appropriate bookends for what would prove to be three days full of flavor, both old and new.  This is a journey that has been long in the works and is in keeping with a promise Z and I made to one another once we were …

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Sixty Posts Later…

  Cooking in Porto Santo Stefano, Italy, on our Honeymoon, our first food and wine adventure! Seven months, sixty posts, countless heads of garlic and lots of wine later, I think I’ve gotten the hang of this thing they call food-blogging.  And I couldn’t love it more.  This has been an exercise in many layers for me, forcing me to …

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Foodie-Girl Goes to Napa

  As the plane was landing in Louisville last year, bringing us home from our first Napa adventure, I was already turning the pages of my mental calendar.  Perhaps we can go back in five months for the harvest?  What about November when the hordes of people have subsided?  The desire to return quickly exhibited signs of desperation as I …