Revrunner

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    Took a quick tea break at Carluccio's in Cambridge's City Centre after our rehearsal and before our midday concert at Great St...

    Speaking of tea, this is how they serve it and almond croissants at The Fitzwilliam. So utterly civilized! :-)

After cooking in the copper kettles, the fudge is transferred to this marble table to cool before being cut into individual slices for sale.

There are one or two members of our choir who, for some reason, seem obsessed about fudge. So several of us marched down to a Cambridge ...

Cambridge, England Not plugging anything here. Just sayin' that Caffés Nero often seemed in just the right places at just the right time...

So the story behind I found myself eating at The Royal Oak in Ripon begins with the dinner I enjoyed the night before in Harrogate. There t...

    Appleton's in Ripon. Reminded me of the "meat pies" I ate as a kid living in England not far from here.

It seems like an odd thing to record what you ate on a trip, I know, but I've learned through hard experience how important maintaining ...

S o, I've had to overcome a reluctance on my part to share my local favorites, mostly because I favor the little known and often slightl...

I'm thinking of making a birdhouse out of a gourd for this upcoming cold season. "Gourds continued to be used throughout history in...

  F inally stopped into The Bake Shop . Usually, when students are on campus, there is a long line of people waiting to get inside. This was...

  Had about an hour layover in Philadelphia before heading home to Virginia, my first visit to that city's international airport. No tim...

The nice thing about hiking the Saunders-Monticello Trail is the Rubenstein Visitor Center near the end where--among other things to do--you...

  Tried a couple of different tea brands yesterday, Darvilles and Taylors. Both were excellent. I'm not much of one for discerning and d...

 The first time I can remember drinking a glass of Tempranillo was while hiking in northern Spain. Ever since then, I've made a place fo...

  Apricot and Red Lentil Soup adapted from "Samarkand: Recipes & Stories from Central Asia & the Caucasus" by Caroline Ede...

P erhaps the Duke basketball team could have used a little kale in their diet before last night's game against the Tennessee Vols, becau...

  So, I'm almost always faced with this same dilemma whenever I fix beans and rice of what to do on the third day when there really isn...