What Fills My Plate

The search continues!  I had high hopes that this new product in my large super market would be the real thing.  We tried, we tasted, it failed.  Doing further research we found that this product was not a real corn tortilla based product even though you can see the title "Corn Tortilla".  They used 34 % wheat flour.  The result of this is that they do not cook well, you cannot fry them to make soft tacos as the edges burn.  They do not even come close to tasting nor smelling like the real thing.  You begin to wonder about these food companies.    more below.. Why is it so hard to get a product that is the real thing here in Europe?  These companies change the composition way too much.  An example are the many different brands of salza offered in markets.   All of them contain way too much sugar and no "heat".   Yet they are labeled as the real thing found in Mexico or Texas.  I never add sugar when I make my own.  It's all about the chili flavor. I

Has it been two years?   I am thinking it has been far over that, but I can almost begin to smell the roasting coffee beans in the new, still not ready, Milano Starbucks.   Upon more investigation, this Starbucks will not be the usual type, but a much larger one they call a Roastery.   Plans for smaller ones in Milano by the Italian licensee Percassi might open in 2018.   They are publishing that these smaller ones will respect the local community, etc.   I guess this means that the bigger one near the cathedral does not respect the Milanese setting. ?? Here is something you would find in a  Roastery .    Shiny Copper with tubing, etc, looking more like a small craft brewery.   You can see that this not be your usual coffee bar found everywhere in Italy. Ah, there’s nothing like getting a cup of java that is several 100 % mark up over normal coffee a few doors down the street. The owner of our fav enoteca in Arquà Petrarca sat down for a few minutes and   told us t