Prior to my Italian departure, my brain was under the assumption my staple foods existed in wide availability. Hello… it’s Italy, the all-around Gods of the food universe must have everything. (Insert “wrong” game show sound) Wrong. Much to my chagrin, I was unpleasantly surprised to discover Italians do not eat peanut butter. Or almond […]

Unfortunately (or fortunately…?) my mind is soaked with sarcasm. Like an industrial-sized sponge, this brain absorbs words and sentences and out drips pure, sarcastic musings a lot of the time. I’m very internal, so thankfully most of these stay enclosed. And I want to look like I’m a very put together human being most of the […]

Back when free time was abundant and our lives were not obstructed with, well, life….some of my girlfriends and I used to get together once a week for what we liked to creatively call…wine night. Coming from a variety of backgrounds including Italian, Chilean, and Cuban, we’d rotate cooking elaborate three course dinners complete with… […]

As part of my food writing class, we had to complete a product tasting and write about it. At first, heavenly  visions of frostings, macaroni and cheese, cupcakes, and brownies flooded my brain, but then remembered I live alone and having heaping quantities of those foods around would not be good. I realized I needed […]

There are few things I love doing more than cooking a meal for other people. For one, it’s a time to showcase your skills, of course, but it’s more about bringing people together and having a blast together in the form of the dinner party. I can easily say sayonara to all bar times, club […]

Let’s all come together and agree on one thing: everyone has their comfort dessert of choice. You have it, I have it, they have it. On the day you got a bad grade, your boss or significant other is in an atrocious mood, or your a lady and it’s that time.. you just want something […]