"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." —Marcel Proust
Legend has it that Captiva’s name came from the Spanish pirate Gasparilla’s “Isle de los Captivas,” where he held captured women he sought to ransom. Although it’s a great story, no one...
For me, the opening of the stone crab season is reason enough to visit Florida in October. They’re simply wonderful — a cross between lobster and shrimp. After my arrival on Oct....
The scope of the volcano that formed today’s Santorini is almost incomprehensible. Standing on the rim of the onetime crater high above the sea on the Greek island makes an indelible impression...
I trust Ina Garten and her cookbooks because the recipes, when followed, always work. Although I’m pretty intimidated by spaghetti squash, I had my eye on the Spaghetti Squash With Garlic and Parmesan recipe...
“Salad for 24” was the dish requested when I asked what I could bring to a recent gathering to celebrate a friend’s early autumn birthday. “What a nightmare,” I thought, while considering...
Despite, or perhaps because of, the pandemic, the International Culinary Arts & Sciences Institute in Chester Township has a record number of applicants for its professional cooking programs this fall. Recently named one of the...
Music from the rousing good time enjoyed by more than 1,300 people at the 17th annual Slovenian Sausage Festival rang out through the woods surrounding the SNPJ Farm in Kirtland on Sept....
A thousand years before the Parthenon, before the great pyramids of Egypt or Stonehenge in today’s England, there was Akrotiri, a city on today’s Santorini that was buried in ash from a...
I vowed to see the Parthenon on this, my fourth visit to Athens, and my friend Cathy and I arrived a few days before our cruise and booked a tour of the...
Neither my friend Cathy nor I knew much about Greek food when we embarked on a recent 10-day foray in Greece. The trip, which began with two days in Athens before we...
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