thefourthvine  posted her Yuletide letter a week ago and she put forth a request for a story about BAUDELAIRE'S POETRY. I cannot textually render my love for this, I truly cannot, because I may be wary of any and all French poets, but Baudelaire has a secret special place in my heart, and my copy of Les Fleurs du mal l is still on my bedside table, and ( Read more... )

Yesterday:

Trenette with lobster in tomato sauce! It was an otherworldly experience. WONDROUS. The pasta was amazing and the lobster was enormous and it took me half an hour to eat the whole thing. THEN I WENT INTO FOOD COMA. The dessert was also amazing, because chocolate biscuit-like cake plus gelato sprinkled with hazelnut bits = A+++. (Before & ( Read more... )