My blog post about focaccia is on The Rambling Epicure. To visit this exciting new food-and-wine website click here. Related posts: Alison Harris’s Food Photography…
When I first moved to Paris in 1986 I lived in a 7th-floor walk-up apartment with no window. It had a skylight — at the…
A sampler of Alison’s terrific food photography is on show on The Rambling Epicure, the new food-and-wine website for thoughtful food-and-wine lovers. Here’s the lead…
My first post for TheRamblingEpicure is about Beaune and wine. The background: author and editor Jonell Galloway, creator of the website, discovered Food Wine Burgundy…
Here’s a flattering review of Food Wine Burgundy on the great new food-lovers’ site TheRamblingEpicure. Lovely! Critics’ Café: Book Review, Food Wine Burgundy, by David…
If you’d put the scene in a movie the audience would’ve groaned. Too cliché. Too Paris. Too fashion. Too American-in-Paris. Too much everything. After sunny…
We’ll be offering all our Paris tours in April (and before and after!), but this year for the second time we’ll be teaming up with…
When Paris puts on a major art exhibition with paintings by the likes of Courbet, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Monet, Matisse, Derain, Dufy, Bonnard and others,…
Dawn over Genoa this morning. Now it’s downright hot… Perfect weather, no crowds, fab food… This is winter on the Italian Riviera. I once had…
There’s a reason “Wreck-Oh!” is the irreverent nickname for Recco, the Italian Riviera’s self-styled “culinary capital” and probable birthplace of the cheese-filled delicacy focaccia con…
Have you seen this hat before? No? Really? Look again. It’s been on my head every day as I’ve hiked around the Italian Riviera. Here…
(image: San Rocco, again…) The other day at Arturo’s butcher shop – that’s Arturo Paolucci here in San Rocco – I was waiting in line…