I’ve always loved carousels — merry-go-rounds to the unregenerate. Think of Hitchcock and “Strangers on a Train”. What could be a more dramatic way to…
More and more spring photos, thousands of words without the effort of reading them! Oh joy! The New Paradigm! Visual and free of cost!! Budding…
All photos copyright Alison Harris “Even an expert has difficulty distinguishing brumale from melanosporum,” growled Pierre-Jean Pébeyre, France’s leading dealer of fresh and conserved melanosporum.…
More spring photos, each sweetly singing those proverbial thousand words… Prospects are not the only things budding in Paris: there’s forsythia, hyacinth, magnolias, daffodils, camellias,…
Words don’t fail me — but they’re not really needed. It’s early March, that magical time of year in Paris when winter slowly gives way…
The scent of truffles is what draws trained dogs and pigs to them. Wild or cultivated, truffles grow at random around host trees and must…
The Sublime The Ridiculous And Much Between A picture speaks a thousand words department: here’s a sampler of images from the second annual International Cookbook…
BestCovery.com — a website that rates just about everything under the sun — has chosen Food Wine Rome and the Terroir Guides series as one…
Photo copyright Alison Harris: The White Truffle Mother-load, Overlooking the Tanaro River Photo copyright Alison Harris: White Tuberous Gold. Even the soil clinging to a…
Unlikely Discoveries Department: the tea room, restaurant and courtyard terrace of Bonpoint, the chic clothes emporium for kiddies with well-healed parents. The official name is…
Confession time: for the last 25+ years I’ve lived in Paris and traveled the byways of France and Italy, tasting and writing about delicious food…
The highest honor bestowed by the Italian Republic may well be some kind of knighthood — Cavaliere del Lavoro is one — or an honorary…