Exploring Global Cuisines with Rowena Scherer: Founder of eat2explore

The Love Plant

The Love Plant Lavender, Love and Pasta A Plant that Inspires and Feeds What if I told you that there was such a plant that brings luck and romance. This plant is native to the Meditteranean region and dates all the way back to 2500 years ago— this plant grew from the earth during Biblical times. It has a vast array of uses such as for the culinary arts, herbal cures for insomnia, anxiety, and more. It's used for beauty and hygiene like in soaps, scented waters and candles, oils for topical use and many more. The name of this plant can even be translated to "devotion" and "undying love." Which is particularly fitting because, when its petals are dried enough, it's commonly used as wedding confetti. When I think of this plant, it takes me back to days spent in Provence bit far fron the Italian countryside. In Tuscany, Italy, an Italian farmer finishes off a well-deserved meal after a long day's work of caring for the charming bushes of this very plan...

Coffee On the Go

Coffee on the Go Guest Editor: Teryn Hartline copyright 2020 Art of Living, PrimaMedia,Inc Listen to The Fashionality of Coffee on The Maria Liberati Show Podcast If you're reading this article, that probably means that you're an avid coffee drinker. If coffee is one of the best parts of your day, then coffee runs your life. I know from experience how much we rely on coffee. I drink coffee all day every day. Partly because I like the taste, but more so because I love caffeine. That's just the American way we love our coffee. The funny thing is that in America, we take our coffee very seriously. We pride ourselves on the amount of caffeine Americans drink per day and the different types of flavors that we have. In America, coffee is an essential part of most people's lives. Whether it's making it at home, grabbing it in a drive thru, or making it at your office. Most American's drink coffee at least in the morning, if not throughout the day. ...

Everything You Wanted to Know About Boston's Little Italy and Were Afraid to Ask

copyright 2020 Art of Living, PrimaMedia,Inc Guest Blogger: GeGe Tan Listen to TheMariaLiberatiShow October is the Italian-American Heritage Month; for Maria, having an Italian heritage has a very special meaning. “Being Italian to me means being part of a shared language and culture, appreciating the esthetic sense of many things and styles,” said Maria. This week, Maria’s friend Frankie Imbergamo, the author of The Good Life Favorite Italian Recipes, is here to share his childhood story about growing up in the North End of Boston, as well as the history of Little Italy. Boston’s Little Italy The North End used to be an Italian neighborhood, and now it has evolved into a must-visit spot famous for having countless Italian restaurants and bakeries all lined up on the narrow street. Frankie said he learned traditional Italian cuisine from his mother and grandmother when he grew up in the North End. Italian families love to celebrate dinner night with home-made wine a...

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