My good friend Bill’s mother was first generation Italian. She grew up grazing the family’s sheep in the mountains of Northern Italy. She had an idiom regarding the correct way to make Risotto. “The rice must first die in oil, to be borne again in water”. And that is one of the secrets to good

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Glass Artists of Colorado 17 December 2021 A Sears catalog ad from the 1950s for Shiny Brite ornaments. The Shiny Brite story begins after World War I with Max Eckardt, a German born in 1890. “Though Eckardt was from Oberlind, Germany—just 20 miles away from Lauscha, a hub for glass ornament makers—he first trained in

Art is like breathing

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/lifestyle/2021/11/29/sibleys-toyland-rochester-ny-wonderland-druing-christmas/6255970001 Generations of Rochesterians made a downtown visit to Sibley’s Toyland and the Magic Corridor an annual part of their holiday-season traditions. Democrat and Chronicle 29 November,2021 The Magic Corridor took children through a dark tunnel lined with animated characters portraying various Christmas stories. Toyland was Sibley’s way of beefing up its assortment of kids’