A Life Worth Eating

At popular chain restaurants in the US, the wait for a table can be nerve-racking. The little light-up coaster the hostess has given you may vibrate wildly any minute now. Your raspberry martini is not safe. And I know this was the first time we’d had to wait for a table in France, [...]

Florence is a beautiful city, and one steeped in history. It has boasted an impressive list of notable residents for hundreds of years: Salvatore Ferragamo, Dante, Galileo, Machiavelli, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. But really, besides the names of the Ninja Turtles, the foundations of the modern Italian language, and some of the [...]