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Alan and I spent four days in Lisbon in December of 2006. We went back to Barcelona completely in love with Portugal and its people. Friends had told me that the light in Lisbon is something unique but we couldn’t imagine how right they were. It is hard to explain. But you get a sense [...] I have decided to give books as Christmas gifts to friends and family. Many of them will be getting books on food or cooking so I ordered multiple copies of the following online: I’ve had this book for a few months now and it’s really great when you just want to look up an ingredient, [...] My new favourite cookbook is Terry Walters’ Clean Food. The book is more than your usual cookbook. Rather, it teaches some of the basic principles of eating real food, as close to seasonal as possible, and Terry Walters’ background as a holistic health counselor shows through in the introductory chapters explaining the benefits and properties [...] I wrote about Mark Bittman before but it was only today that I finally got his newly released book, Food Matters: a Guide to Conscious Eating. Much like Michael Pollan, to whom he often refers in the book, Mark Bittman calls us to be more conscientious of our eating habits and adopt what he calls [...] |
 Hi, I'm Alexandra. Born in Brazil, Canadian by choice, and having lived in exciting Barcelona for a year between 2006 and 2007, my earliest childhood memories revolve around food and food is what I remember most about every place I’ve ever lived. After writing a more general blog for the past few years, it was time to organize my writing about food in one place. © All pictures on this blog are taken by me unless otherwise noted. About the title of this blog |
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