Let’s update this post when one of us receives ours! 

I’m hoping they do first-in-first-out. But who knows?

Same boat.
A friend’s passport expires in December. I told him to send in his renewal now. 

TIL Crossfit is a competitive sport with drug testing. 

I love Brazil nuts, but you have to be careful of the Selenium, right?
I call them the poor man’s Macadamia because they have a similar texture.

I sent my renewal in February and am still waiting. 6-8 weeks became 16.

I don’t see prosciutto with fresh mozzarella, on a rosetta roll. Hmm.

Imelda’s skin tone is very suspect. Or too much zinc sunblock? 

The Mario Andrew is against it.

Timothy Egan IS THE SHIT and I recommend reading all of his books.

Take a photo of it. You can block out the name, if you’d like.

You must admit it’s quite fetching. I wonder if one could plant strawberries in it?

Looks like my mom’s old-fangled pizzelle iron. She would bring it out when we were barbecuing and cook the pizzelle on the remaining heat from the coals.

It showed up. Nice! I have a big problem with the American habit of eating ice cream out of cereal bowls. It’s too much! Sherbet cups or ramekins are the best size for ice cream, IMHO. 

The grappa is heated. I believe it gets flambéed and then you drink from it once the flames subside. I drank from it once, at my Northern Italian brother-in-law’s house.

Is $400M the retail or wholesale cost of those dresses? 

Catherine de Medici brought not only Italian food but ballet to France!

There is a Hardware store on Commercial Drive in Vancouver that sells everything. I could not resist buying this Italian chitarra to make pasta:

I wonder what the lead content is on that thing?

Each spout is for drinking from, right?