At the risk of sounding dramatic and about 13 years late to the party, reading the Italy portion of Eat Pray Love — while living in,...

Before I knew I was going to Italy or even considering culinary school — and when I wasn't following recipes from my favorite sites like...

My favorite smell in Florence is bread being baked by the pastry students at Apicius. My favorite thing to touch, at the moment, is...

You've probably been seeing a lot of red lately. Not because you've been blinded by rage or experiencing optical troubles (at least, I...

On the first day of my first culinary class, Introduction to Professional Cooking, I put on my chef get-up for the first time, laughing...

Florence has been smelly. And hot. And crowded. And covered in graffiti and full of loud people and aggressive pigeons. I noticed this my...

It's been a difficult week, full of many solo pasta dinners (not the worst thing), long walks alone (also not awful) and conversations...