So I’m almost packed to head to Melbourne. I think this is one of the few times I’m not super excited about travelling. I suppose it’s all about my not very pleasant experiences when I was looking fo...
Paul A. Young chocolate brownie…. made from Valrhona chocolate Paul A. Young chocolate Amedei Toscano Black 70% Rococo Basil and Persian Lime chocolate Vlarhona Jivara Valrhona Guanaja Michel C...
Last weekend I decided to buy what seemed like an interesting book in my local Oxfam: The Chocolate Connoisseur by Cloé Doutre-Roussel. The book was clearly written for someone just like me, or as t...
Well, so I’m in that time of my life: when a lot of friends, friends’ friends, frenemies and people my age I happen to know start getting married and having kids (not necessarily in that order). To b...
Today I was talking to a friend of mine about the perils of living in a developing and sexist country. As it happens 100% of the times, people think I’m just making stuff up and exaggerating wh...
So, last Saturday I was brave enough to attempt to make macarons. The first time I tried it was a complete disaster, the look like soggy biscuits rather than proper posh macarons. Although the outcom...
So, here is a recipe I tried today. I’m sooo over the moon: the dish is fancy, yet easy and cheap. It’ll definitely become one of my favourites! Ingredients Serves 3 220 g. lemon and gar...
Dear not-so-unknown-anymore: You may not remember me but my boyfriend introduced us a few months ago. He’d met you more than a year before and he always talked about you: how beautiful you loo...
Right now my life is not extremely easy. I just came back from NY after just a couple of months and a lot of things have changed around here. Stress started to build up precisely at a time when I sho...
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Josh Raynolds/AP A couple of days ago I was walking in Times Square with my boyfrie...
Like a month ago I missed a dinner with my fellow UN interns and I have to say… I was so glad I did it because I had the opportunity to visit the fabulous Tacombi at Fonda Nolita in Soho, NY. I...
More than a month has passed since I arrived to NY, but finally I could have enough time to write this post. My internship started on April 18th 2011, in the middle of the spring internship session...
Since mid-April 2011 I am an intern at the UN headquarters in New York. From that day on, my views on the internship and on the UN had radically changed. As a student of International Relations I alw...
Without any doubt, the 5th is my favourite avenue in NY. I’m sure I could spend a whole week, or even a month confined in this street and I wouldn’t be bored at all. Here are some idea...
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