Author: kristen

Home Curing

When normal people get home from Florence, it’s with beautiful memories of shopping for lovely soaps, marbled papers, tiny replicas of the David in plaster…...

Happy Birthday, my girl

I spent all day today in one of my favorite ways: shopping for, cooking, photographing and writing about food.  Today’s efforts: peach crumble and roasted...

Santa Croce Without a Baedeker

And so Day Three of our Florentine adventures dawned, pouring with rain.  We decided to cross the street and visit the Pitti Palace, and dear...