Recent Posts
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BOUTIQUE ITALIAN WINES
Get your pen ready! Here come spectacular recommendations for small-vineyard Italian wines. You won’t hear about the big joints at all, but instead, the small players, the individuals who have passed down their love of grapes through generations. These are vintners interested in exploring and exploiting the possibilities in their vines, not glutting the market with “good enough”. I was ... Read More » -
TREATISE ON YOGA PANTS
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ENCHANTED AND ENCHANTING…
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VIVA LA FRANCE (PARTE UN)
Now that I’ve finally kicked my jet lag, I’m able to sit down and make an attempt at distilling the images, memories and tastes of the last week into a somewhat coherent entry to the Sauced blog. Here I go . . . From Saturday to Saturday I was in France, staying in Chaville-Vélizy at the house of my boyfriend’s sister ... Read More » -
FRESHLY PRESSED JUICE
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ARE YOU THERE SUMMER? IT’S ME, ANNA.
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THE SWEET AND THE SPICY
I’ve discovered in recent months that Instagram is a great way to cull interesting culinary ideas and discover new beverages to imbibe. I follow Dogfish Head beer to learn about their latest collaborations (and to covet their bocce court). Smitten Kitchen and Ida Garten are always making me drool. But even outside professional Instagrammers, I’m finding new ideas with the ... Read More » -
FRESHLY PRESSED JUICE
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HOW DO YOU CHEERS?
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SPACERS
If you have ever tiled an area, you are familiar with spacers. They hold the tiles in place until the cement sets. Spacers ensure your tiles stay evenly separated from the others, so your rows don’t go off kilter. We had the pleasure of sharing a great dinner last night with good friends, but these friends should come with a ... Read More » -
THE END OF THE MAYAN CALENDAR
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IF YOU PLANT IT, IT WILL GROW
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JUST DESSERTS
If you had ever told me that I would wake up at 8:30 in the morning with thoughts of trying a new recipe pushing me out of bed and into the kitchen, I would’ve laughed in your face. And probably gone back to bed. I don’t know if was some kind of subconscious backlash against the idea of a woman ... Read More » -
ADVENTUROUS PALATES
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A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
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I HATE GYMS
This is not new news. In fact, I have blogged about my loathing of gyms in the past. (Click here.) Right about the time of that 2011 blog post, I rediscovered running. I had sworn off of it in high school, thinking any running that did not include something like a basketball in front of you, or a field hockey stick ... Read More » -
WHEN FAMILIES TRAVEL TOGETHER
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LIVING IN A WHEAT-LESS WORLD