Here we are, finally, the first installment of the Italy 2007 vacation extravaganza… The slideshow below shows some of our best photos from Milan, the complete set can be viewed at Flickr.
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Milan was really my second stop of the trip as I spent 2 days in London for work before I got there. I’ll write a […]

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I was watching Inside the Actor’s Studio the other day - I lurve that show - and I realized that James Lipton’s closing would make a great blog topic. And yes, I know that the questions really came from Bernard Pivot (thank you wikipedia). There are some great writers, thinkers, eaters and farmers blogging out […]

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This week was a slow return to normalcy for me. I’d forgotten just how much worse jet lag is coming back West than it is going East. It’s only since yesterday that I finally feel like I’m back in the land of the living.
We ate wildly local at the beginning of the week, enjoying chicken […]

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Well wonders never cease. The woman that I was originally supposed to get some chickens from, and that mysteriously disappeared leaving me to find different cluckers, finally resurfaced. And did so with two 25 lb. local free range turkeys to boot!
Of course we’ve already ordered a California free range bird and it’s too late to […]

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Still no progress on the Italy recap front - I finally decided to go ahead and upgrade my Flikr account and figured out how to add a slide show here, but that’s as far as I’ve gotten. I’m targeting Saturday as the day to deal with photos. So look for my recap of Milan and […]

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I know, I know. You all want me to tell you all about Italy. But between the jet lag and the need to return to real life I haven’t even had time to look at the photos, much less start to write about the experience. And tonight I’m off to a going away party for […]

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I’m in the middle of downloading the approximately 1400 photos that I took in Italy - thank goodness for digital, I can’t imagine what it would cost me to process that much 35mm film… I don’t have a specific meal to report, but suffice it to say that we ate some of the most fabulous […]

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