Sunday: Since my Sunday meal was devoured the night before, we had to figure out what to make for lunch.   The previous day, while shopping at Trader Joe’s, we picked up two packages of ready-made pizza dough in a bag and pizza sauce in a jar. Well it was a no brainer, we’d make pizza.  [...]

A good friend of mine, L. Taiwan Green came over a few weeks ago to check out the amazing kitchen that is in the home I’m renting.  The home was my grandfather’s & grandmother’s home, where my mother was raised.  The home was build in 1949 my by great-grandfather and at the time, was an [...]

About 10 years ago I was a regular at a true Tobacconist shop, and I was gifted to learn the age-old secrets to blending pipe-smoking tobacco.  I was taught that back in the early days of the world, when the Indian spice trade routes were open, and the world was the oyster of any captain [...]