Dinner Party on the occasion of Despoinarion's Oscar Celebration and Awards

 Today’s post is a celebration for Despoinarion‘s Oscar Awards.  The celebration is double in nature: we celebrate first the award

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Mugaritz Restaurant, near San Sebastian, Basque Country

This is a long due review of my visit to Mugaritz in June 2010. Mugaritz is listed as number 5

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Freud on the Acropolis

On his only visit to Greece, in 1904, Sigmund Freud experienced brief but unsettling feelings of alienation as he stood

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Maria Callas Memory: 16th September 1977

Maria Callas left this world on the 16th September 1977. On this occasion, I want to share with you a

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Long live Democracy!!! (on the occasion of the 11th September 2001)

The 11th September 2001 is a black day for the USA, but also for all supporters of Democracy in the world.

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Carp (Ciprinus) in brine with polenta (Saramura de Crap cu mamaliga)

Today I present a dish from Romania, which I like very much. It is carp marinated in brine, then grilled

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Mediterranean Mousaka with apaki and yogurt

Today I want to share a dish that is my own variation of the well-known “Mousaka” dish. I start with

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La Dolce Vita – Fellini's Masterpiece

“The film first impinged on the world at large in February 1960 when foreign journalists reported back to their readers,

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Trattoria e Locanda La Buca, Zibello, Parma, Italia

This post is long overdue, but better late than never. I visited La Buca four years ago, and it is

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Painting the Human Body and Flesh

Back in 1995 I visited an exhibition of the late period Degas in the National Gallery of London. Among the

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