• The potential of a recipe

    For some time now, I haven’t been into recipes that much. I mean food recipes, but maybe it’s been a metaphor for the other recipes…

  • Moments of peace and having a little fun

    Maybe it is my pre-carnival mood. The diamond grid. It reminds me of Italian commedia dell’arte. Carnival Venice style. Puppets, masks, the mysterious eyes behind.…

  • Visiting a young French bakery in Amsterdam

    In the early days of January, I had a little French adventure in Amsterdam. I am not French, but I do feel related to them,…

  • Cooking for life

    I haven’t told you yet about a friend of mine, a beautiful lady, happy, light, colourful. She has lived a life full of beautiful people…

  • Porridge Paradise: London style

    I had forgotten about oats. That is, not really forgotten. I had just not thought about them for some time now. Summer had arrived–oats can…

  • Morning rituals

    Rekindling an appetite for life My body started to feel thin, worn out. In a wish to learn something new, I had gone through all…

  • Seeing PAUL and Starbucks

    The first time I met Paul was in London. I’m not sure, whether it was right after I arrived at King’s Cross that we ran…

  • Back to Athens

    I had a practical problem, my need for food. I would arrive in Athens on the evening of the second day of Christmas and I…

  • On the railroad part three

    “Did you tell the man in the trattoria you came from us,” asked my happy receptionist in the hotel the next morning. “Ehm, no, I…