Sunday, September 05, 2004


specialty coffee in siena, hachez with sparkle

regular readers know that next week i take off for italy and a sporadic host of interesting guest bloggers will fill this space as the mood strikes 'em. in that regard, i'm finalizing my line-up for great specialty coffee in italy.

i have everywhere worked out except for siena and bologna. in bologna, i have 2 recommendations so far: caffé orefici, a coffee roaster and wine bar in the street of the same name, and the famed caffé zanarini in piazza galvani.

for siena, i'm still blank. so dear readers, if you have any experience, don't hesitate to offer a name. . .

also, this study arguing that yoga is not an effective exercise is making the rounds. my problem here is that the texas researcher doesn't say what kind of yoga she studied.

i could well believe 30 mins. of gentle, iyengar beginner-level yoga doesn't do much for ya. 30 mins. of vigorous, fast-paced sun salutations in the ashtanga style, which moves as quickly as step-aerobics, probably does a lot, esp. since an ashtanga class is usually at least 1-1/2 hrs. long!

my own personal experience is that yoga is fantastic exercise, but of course, people and yoga styles do differ. . .

finally we celebrated mr. right's homecoming with that great sparkling red italian dessert wine, the banfi rosa regale 2002 brachetto d'acqui, said to marry well with dark chocolate. i had it with some hachez 77% "arriba" that was lying about.

for those of you who haven't had the rosa regale, think of a prosecco with a pronounced raspberry flavor. i have to confess that i prefer a syrupy banyuls with chocolate however, personally. . .

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