top of page
Blog
Welcome to FoodMood blog space. Reflections on my travels, musings, favorite recipes, and the Bunny Chronicles. Storytelling with joy, sass, self-reflection, and hope.
Nicole Crabtree with video by Eizabeta Ak &
Sep 15, 20184 min read
Food Speaks for IWCL: using food to express gratitude
At table, 7 of the 8 women from 8 countries attending IWCL cooking class, 8th taking the photo When I came to Lugano in 2007 it felt a...
64 views
Nicole Crabtree with photos by Nicolas Ferrier
Sep 8, 201815 min read
India: Love is the only way, a meditative journey
Bunny takes a rare photo op at the peak of a particularly spectacular summit, where violet and green rock dazzles the eye. She shared the...
269 views
Nicole Crabtree
Aug 15, 20183 min read
Love at Ferragosto in the Dolomites
Lago di Croce as seen from our garden in the haven of the Dolomites Torres d’alpago. Village of 122 persons at the foot of the...
54 views
Nicole Crabtree with contribution by Elisabeth
Jul 31, 20182 min read
August 1st Happy Swiss Independence day!
Bearli fiercely proud of his Swiss Poppy holds his flag on August 1st bottom center; bottom right courtesy of Gerry Hofstetter; top and...
119 views
Nicole Crabtree
Jul 4, 20181 min read
Happy 4th of July from India
Photo courtesy of google. During this period I am traveling in India and will be back on line in August. This post is to wish all,...
19 views
Nicole Crabtree with guest poet Jill Haber
Jun 20, 20183 min read
Grace: a poem provokes a state of being
Sandro Botticelli's Three Graces in Primavera courtesy of The History Collection / Alamy Stock Photo GRACE She said the maple tree...
36 views
Nicole Crabtree with guest Alli Zeper and phots by
Jun 11, 20185 min read
Liguria: the Italian coast of heaven
Bunny on the beach in Vernazza. Liguria, in particular Moneglia is one of my favorite places to visit on the Italian coast. We are super...
85 views
Nicole Crabtree with guest Giorgia Colombo
Jun 1, 20182 min read
Giorgia's Granola
Granola is one of the foods that was healthy, and then got highjacked. The granola bar of my youth was little more than sugar (or eeh...
34 views
Nicole Crabtree with photos by Kenan Soylu
May 29, 201812 min read
Mom's European adventure tracing her Spanish roots plus with Bunny, Bearli, & Co.
Bunny & Bearli catch some sun at the Alhambra. In the 22 years I have lived outside of America my mom has come to visit me three times,...
95 views
Nicole Crabtree
May 24, 20185 min read
FOOD: How I (re)found my voice
Photo features the alchemist area of my kitchen as photographed by me, while the image in the right, the “Sun Catcher” by Ioyan Mani...
72 views
bottom of page