Thanks, Eat Pray Love, for teaching me how to be kind to myself while learning Italian
At the risk of sounding dramatic and about 13 years late to the party, reading the Italy portion of Eat Pray Love — while living in,...
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Sara Cagle
- Aug 8, 2019
- 11 min
Tradition of Italian Food 1: Takeaways and recipes from my second culinary course
Before I knew I was going to Italy or even considering culinary school — and when I wasn't following recipes from my favorite sites like...
Sara Cagle
- Aug 6, 2019
- 3 min
One long pause in Santa Margherita Ligure
My favorite smell in Florence is bread being baked by the pastry students at Apicius. My favorite thing to touch, at the moment, is...
Sara Cagle
- Jul 25, 2019
- 4 min
A tomato a day (at least)
You've probably been seeing a lot of red lately. Not because you've been blinded by rage or experiencing optical troubles (at least, I...
Sara Cagle
- Jul 16, 2019
- 13 min
Officially three weeks into my journey as a culinary student
On the first day of my first culinary class, Introduction to Professional Cooking, I put on my chef get-up for the first time, laughing...
Sara Cagle
- Jul 9, 2019
- 3 min
Finding little pockets of peace in crowded Florence
Florence has been smelly. And hot. And crowded. And covered in graffiti and full of loud people and aggressive pigeons. I noticed this my...
Sara Cagle
- Jul 1, 2019
- 3 min
Who I've met during my first week in Florence, from a dancing butcher to a singing chef
It's been a difficult week, full of many solo pasta dinners (not the worst thing), long walks alone (also not awful) and conversations...