It Tastes Better When You Make It Yourself Today was gelato and confection day. We made two sorbetos, one gelato and three chocolate pralines. It was a long and sweet day, but chocolate and gelato making can be a messy … Read More
The health and safety class was very interesting…. It provided a good technical overview of temperatures and environments for keeping food safe. We had a good review of microbiology and how to identify environments for microbial growth (both good and … Read More
Sorry for the delay in updating… So I set up the blog without any problems and it didn’t take long for me to break it. I’ve tried to add new blog posts and they have gone off into thin air. … Read More
Italian is a beautiful language and the culture just as beautiful…after my first week. The first week has been difficult. Arriving in Jesi (yesi) I found that my accommodation for two months was a hostel with a shared room and … Read More
Leaving Marco Polo Airport in Venice… What a trooper! Cindy just spent three days and over 1,000 kilometers in the car to visit both Colorno near Parma and Jesi near Ancona where I will be staying. This was the start … Read More
You say Plum and I say Prune, either way it burns going down when you drink the schnapps… I delivered the must(fermenting fruit that is turning into wine) from our prunes today to the Bauernhof Brennerai Lüthy near Aargau, Switzerland. … Read More
What does a guy do when he is home alone and has to eat from the freezer? One makes do Cindy was out-of-town at a business meeting. As I was a home alone, I decided to help clean out … Read More
Tomorrow I’m making dinner for Cindy’s book club. I needed FRESH mushrooms and the only place I know that is consistently producing mushrooms is on the western side of the Vosge. So… It started to pour as soon as I … Read More
Walking in the forest today I noticed how the season had changed and how different from last year it was. I was taking the last walk for the year in the Harthwald before leaving for Italy. I was struck … Read More
Sharpening The Knife… Since 1984…I’ve gone to work each day. Often times that meant getting on an airplane and flying somewhere and most of the times it meant going into a hospital or working in an office. Starting next week, … Read More