Ms. Adventures in Italy

Ah, Napoli! A city with a rough reputation, there are so many hidden delights, and wonderful food, that you can’t discount Naples if you’ve never been there. A ...

Yesterday I posted the Fig & Chocolate Oatmeal Bars recipe from the new cookbook, “Cookie Swap” by Julia Usher. Today Julia shares some of her decorating tips for cookies and how her career path led her from engineer to that of cookbook author and food writer. SA...

One thing’s becoming clearer to me the more I cook is that I am not an ideal cookbook user. ...

So if you’ve read about how celebrating birthdays in the US and Italy is different, you’ll know that usually the birthday girl/boy makes their own cake or brings food/drink to celebrate a birthday with their colleagues*, I thought it only fair to give some presents to my readers, too! Re...

The final part in the 3-post series about how prosciutto crudo, cured ham from Parma is made. If you’ve just stumbled on the series, the first two posts in the series covered the topics below. I’ll wait while you go read those posts and catch up. M...

Here are the 2nd and 3rd place winners for the 2nd Annual O Foods for Ovarian Cancer Awareness contest! We wish we could have given a prize to everyone...

Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s O Foods for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Contest! We had a good time reading and imagining how your dishes would taste. ...

One of my favorite things to do anywhere is visit Farmers’ markets, and the Farmers’ market at the Ferry Building Marketplace in San Francisco is one of the best! Th...

Part 2 in a series about how Prosciutto di Parma is made when I visited a prosciuttificio (prosciutto factory) during the Festival del Prosciutto in the province of Parma...

Prosciutto crudo di Parma, or cured ham, may be one of the most popular Italian foods known – but do you know how it’s made? On...

I’ll get back to the prosciutto soon, but first… Last year Michelle from Bleeding Espresso and I joined with 50 other bloggers for the O Foods Contest to raise awareness about ovarian cancer, and this year we’re so happy to have Gina De Palma back and helping us with this year’s contest! Septem...

I spent Saturday with Jessica from Italy Travel Guide in and around Parma for the annual Prosciutto di Parma festival. Here’s a little taste of what we saw: More tomorrow! ---Related Articles at Ms. ...

Ocean Beach in San Francisco has always been a little perplexing to me. Mainly because I grew up visiting Ocean Beach in San Diego most of my life and that’s the “real” Ocean Beach to me. And because Ocean Beach in SF rarely feels like a “real” beach to me at all. There ha...