Zucchini, as most gardeners know, is one of the most prolific vegetables.  Knowing this, I usually plant only one zucchini plant, with the intention of sharing the squash with friends and neighbors.  But I’ve discovered my friends and neighbors have the same idea, which results in a vast oversupply of this wonderful vegetable, as well [...]

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Despite all the lecturing I do to people about healthy eating, I have no willpower when it comes to ice cream.  The years of knowledge I’ve accumulated about nutrition vanish into thin air when I enter good ice cream shop. Like most people, I would have thought this wonderful dish was created in a cold [...]

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Luciano Pavarotti always has been my husband’s favorite, not only for his wonderful tenor voice but for the interview in which, he was asked if he was overweight, he answered, “I like to eat.” When I tried to tell my husband he as in issue with food, he would say, “I am not overweight-it’s not [...]

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A number of years ago we spent Christmas holiday in Florence, Italy.  On Christmas Eve, we took 30 minutes drive to Siena.  Although every Italian city and village has a city plaza, or piazza, Siena’s is different, it is fan shaped, and slopes downward to the base of the fan where a beautiful Catholic church [...]

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