Some of the best inner journeys start with the passport-stamped kind. (Whole Living, July/August 2012) Most of this journey across Italy was a bit of a strange tale. Like the quote above, I didn’t realize that I was about to take an inner journey of epic proportions. I was just newly retired from hockey writing…
Over the weekend, I learned two things: 1) French cooking can be very difficult or it can be relatively simple; and 2) my cat loves French food. The latter part was a bit of a surprise. Over the weekend, I made two French meals. The first menu was rather tedious, long and difficult: Lyon-style chicken with…
Have Fewer Things, But Better Things. — Suzanne Rheinstein — I’m not sure what magazine I clipped this quote from, but this motto just really leaped out at me. “Have Fewer Things, But Better Things.” Why didn’t I ever think about that before? Because we live in an age of NOW. We want it now…not…
Before moving this site to a new platform, I experimented with a topic last year to see how it would be perceived. Each month would get its own region and we would take a look at all things from that region. We’re revisiting FRANCE and all things FRENCH to start off Diary of a Perfectionist…
1. Fresh Day, 38 W 48th St (between 5th Ave & Rockefeller Plz), New York City. I am a tad bit addicted to this Manhattan deli that I came across the other week. It’s your typical run of the mill kind of deli…unless you’ve discovered its secret. To the back of the deli, on the…
The $1.50/day challenge ends tomorrow. For me, it ended sooner than I thought it would. Even though it did, I have to say that this challenge was very humbling. On Day Two, I continued eating the pre-made meals I made for the week. Breakfast consisted of the congee soup, free coffee and soy milk, and…
