Food on Fridays: A Taste of Eurovision

We interrupt a scheduled Food on Fridays post for a public service announcement, since time is running out.  It was announced last week that the Eurovision Song Contest Finals will be broadcast live in the U.S. — for the first time ever — on May 14. That’s tomorrow! Yes, the finale will be broadcast live in the U.S. Just think, you, too, can experience Eurovision live this year, just as Chris and I used to when we lived in Germany. Continue reading

Coffee, Milk and Murder

Today we have a quick post for a Thursday that has to do with a mystery, Italian, and coffee. It’s from an Italian mystery book where the protagonist is a barista, i.e. a guy who owns an Italian bar where people go to get coffee as well as alcoholic drinks.  In English the book is called Game for Five, by Marco Malvaldi.  If you want to read the book, STOP READING THIS POST NOW, as I will reveal a major spoiler at the end of this post.

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