These steamed blue crabs are the best you’ll ever have! Steamed Maryland style with lots of Old Bay and a few family secrets to make them extra delicous. This past weekend Chaser and I took a little trip down to Annapolis, Maryland to visit my dad and Mary Marie at their recently purchased home on…
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Venice, Italy
This travel guide for Venice Italy details how to spend 48 hours experiencing this magical city like a local. Cicchetti, wine, and plenty of seafood! Venice is a peculiar city. In many ways, it reminded me a lot of New Orleans: They’re both dirty, artsy, and sinking cities, famous for throwing lavish Carnival celebrations. They’re each…
Bologna, Italy
This Bologna travel guide details all the best places to eat, drink, and stay in Bologna, Italy – one of the best places to eat in Italy! Of all the cities we planned to see in Italy, I was most excited to visit Bologna. Even other Italians will agree, Bologna and the surrounding region of Emilia…
Tuscany, Italy
This travel guide documents a magical 48 hours spent eating pasta and tasting wine in Tuscany, Italy during the beautiful month of September. To say you’re going on at trip to Tuscany is like saying you’re going to the Jersey Shore. Ironically, both happen to have lots of Italians, but that’s not what I’m talking about. What…
Florence, Italy
This travel guide to Florence, Italy, details everywhere we ate and drank during our 48 hours in this charming Tuscan city! Bistecca al Fiorentina! I had originally planned to combine our Tuscan adventures into one big post, but once I started writing I realized Florence needed a page all it’s own. After taking the train in from…
Cinque Terre, Italy
This travel guide for the Cinque Terre, Italy (Liguria) starts in Manarola and goes to Vernazza, Monterosso and Rio Maggiore. Where to eat, hike and more! We’ve all be asked at one point or another – in yoga class, during a meditation exercise, or at one of those motivational seminars – to close your eyes and go…
Turin, Italy
48 hours in the beautiful city of Turin, Italy! This travel guide details where to eat, drink and stay in the capitol of the Piedmont region of Italy. Our journey to Italy began in Milan, when we landed way later than expected thanks to a nice little 5-hour delay in Philly. After cruising through an absurdly…
All Of The Food In New Orleans
This past weekend we took a little trip down to one of my favorite cities and ate ALL of the food. Literally, all of it. New Orleans is like the geographical incarnation of Too Full for School. I’ve been uncomfortably full for the past 4 days straight, and its been glorious.
Nicole Gaffney, aka Coley, is a professionally trained chef, recipe developer, tv host and food writer.