Throughout this pandemic and confinement, I’ve been waking up to bad news pretty much every day. Usually it has to do with death, disease, U.S. government incompetency, or some other coronavirus-related nightmare. The thing is, I receive these horror shows […]
We know that Gabriella Ranelli is the chef de résistance and has been so way before the era of COVID. Her sourdough experience was an enthralling one indeed, perhaps the most exciting and hair-raising account I’ve read for at least […]
I too have turned my hand to bread baking during this unsettling time. It’s something I haven’t done on a regular basis since the Challenger exploded. At that time I was on a self-imposed lockdown in a snowbound Connecticut farmhouse […]
As of this last weekend, my mother-in-law has been locked down for one month. Thirty one days, by herself, in her apartment, in a neighborhood called Herrera, on the outer edges of San Sebastian. And while the rest of us, […]
My mother-in-law has not left her home since Friday the 13th (no joke). Paying close attention to the news throughout early March, she decided to self-isolate in her apartment a few days before lockdown. Weeks ago she and my son […]
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