Do you ever feel like you are the thing that is keeping something running smoothly? Like if you walked off everything you left behind would fall apart without you? Because I am sure that's how Ali is feeling right now. He drove up to Istanbul on Thursday to meet Baki at the airport, flying in …
Author: Garden Correspondent
Gardener, mom, reader, and all round messy person.
A Salad for Summer
Who doesn't love to eat salad all summer long? I like to have raw vegetables somewhere on the table at any meal, but in the dog days of summer, not cooking your veg and eating it too is just too good to pass up. Lately, we have been obsessed with Shepherd's Salad, or Coban Salatasi …
In My Kitchen July 2014
Well, I've just blown back in to the garden from Rome, with spoils to show for it. Only we demolished a lot of it before it even occurred to me that it was a new month already (the boys have made fast work of a hefty chunk of Parmesan). Do you enjoy poking around on …
Treasure Hunt
When I was in high school at St. Stephen's School in Rome, we had an annual "treasure hunt" in which groups of students would be sent to all corners of the city, led by obscure clues. 21 years later, on the occasion of the school's 50th anniversary, I found myself setting off on a treasure …
Grape flowers… and leaves!
The first time I visited the land that was to become our garden, I remember walking past a tall pine tree with a wild grape clambering up its side. There were red grapes on the vine, ready to eat, and we picked some. It seemed like such a lovely, generous thing to be presented with. …
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