This month’s winner is DOLORES (LOIE) MAMINSKI of Westminster, Maryland:
Years ago, on a trip to Italy with friends and their young son, we chose a small restaurant in Naples for supper.
Our friend had noticed in another restaurant diners being served a carafe of white wine with a peach inside, and she wanted to order it for our meal. She inquired in her newly acquired version of Italian if we could have a carafe of wine with a peach.
As we’ve had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly dose of travel dreaming can be good medicine. Here’s one of my favorite European memories in Andalucía — a reminder of the fun that awaits us at the other end of this crisis.
As we’ve had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly dose of travel dreaming can be good medicine. Here’s one of my favorite European memories from the streets of Paris — a reminder of the fun that awaits us at the other end of this crisis.
It had been 20 years since we last visited Portugal, and we decided it was time to make a return trip to this delightful and friendly country.
I think we all have a grandmother who had some incredible recipes. My Hungarian grandmother made the best pie crusts. The secret? Lard, preferably home-cured.
Many Hungarian recipes call for lard, and, it turns out, there is a reason for that. The extensive use of pork and lard originates from when the Ottomans occupied Hungary (1541 to 1699). The official religion of the Ottoman Empire was Islam, which forbade the eating of pork, so the occupying forces confiscated all of the domestic animals for themselves except for pigs.
My daughter, Maggie Logan, chose Italy as her first European destination and asked me to join her. I recommended taking a Rick Steves tour, as I’d been on two previous tours of his: Scotland (Nov. ’16, pg. 27) and the Adriatic (March ’17, pg. 26).
We found that the Oct. 3-11, 2018, “Heart of Italy” tour would work with her October teaching break and also introduce me to some parts of Italy that would be new to me.
