by Michelle Moran | Oct 19, 2025 | The Writer
I wrote this post last spring as we were embarking on our journey back from Sicily to the US. I had not posted it as we were immediately submerged in life in the States, scrambling with renovations, farm dinners, and family affairs. What a joy it was to spend the...
by Michelle Moran | Aug 25, 2023 | The Writer
Heaven on earth. Achat Beach. The beauty of Pigadia. A menu map of Karpathos. Our trip to Karpathos, Greece, began as a joke. Well, not really, Here’s how the story goes. We were visiting Danny’s niece and her husband in New York City. It was a reunion delayed by the...
by Michelle Moran | Mar 14, 2021 | The Chef
An Adventure in Horseshoes and Grenades, Not Really So this is not really an extended story of our last journey, but a new one altogether. Don’t worry; I will get back to Chaa Creek and the creature to blame for my swollen arm. But today, I wanted to write about our...
by The Chef And The Writer | May 19, 2020 | #BestofBlueRidge, #ChefDannyMellman, #dannyandmichelle, #litlpond, #MasseriaKitchen, #saverestaurants, CovidChronicle, Uncategorized
There are so many ups and downs in this quarantine. This began as one of those down weeks. Struggling with the idea of opening, something that 65 days ago, when we were submerged by the knowledge that we would have to close our restaurants, we were buoyed only by the...
