Happy Birthday, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni! Michelangelo, as he is more famously known, was born on the 6th of March, 1475 (died: February 18, 1564) and would have been 544 years old today! When we think of the great Renaissance artists, like Michelangelo, I […]

About a month ago, I was hating the cold Canadian weather and took a mental vacation back to sunny days when we were in Lyon. I posted Lyon: 10 To See. Missed it? You can read it here. With any city, one of the greatest […]

  I have to admit that I’m not a fan of cold weather. The past few weeks, the weather in Toronto has been less than ideal. It’s been cold! Horribly cold (stop laughing, Winnipeg) and I’ve been dreaming of much warmer weather, like we had […]

Last August, I set out with my friends Amy and Grayce, strictly in the name of science, and for TravelFoodCool, to discover some different cocktail bars in my fair city of Toronto. Missed that post? Check it out here. Since Toronto has so many great […]

Do you know what’s extra special about today? On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment was ratified, as announced in a proclamation from President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment of January 16, 1919, ending the increasingly unpopular nationwide prohibition of alcohol. That’s […]

It’s that time of year again in Italy. It’s olive harvest time! Wherever you go (especially in Umbria), you’ll see cars parked and nets spread under trees! People are out in full force picking olives! Olive picking is fun, but it’s also a lot of […]

Chartreuse Cellars I’ve got a thing for Chartreuse. If you remember, last year I wrote a post about the history of Chartreuse. Missed it? You can check it out here. The following week, I posted cocktails made with the French liqueur that first showed up […]