about
Note: This is now terribly out of date. We have gotten married. Traveled. Moved to Toronto. Had a son. Gotten new jobs. Gotten a new camera. And so on. Eventually this page may reflect all that.
us…
rIAm
- A Canadian living in Chicago
- Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada – eh!
- Engaged to an American
- An editor, writer and communications director
- Loves to travel and pining to travel more (I shall do a tonne more in 2006 and 2007)
- Pursuing a Masters of Science degree in Technical Communication and Information Design
- An avid cook, baker and gourmande
- A Mac user (PCs can bite my Apple)
- Obsessed with finding the best mint chocolate in the world
jft
- An American living in Chicago
- Born in Naperville, Illinois, USA – uh huh (rIAm says: I swear this is what everyone in the MidWest ends their phone calls with)
- Engaged to a Canadian
- An editor, writer and lab biologist
- Willing to go with rIAm to far flung places to make her travel dreams come true
- Pursuing a Masters of Science degree in Technical Communication and Information Design
- A kitchen hero when it comes to breakfast, Mexican and Asian food
- A PC user who is an aspiring Mac user
- Obsessed with recreating Rick Bayless’ Mexican cooking, which is only second to rooting for the Chicago Cubs
this site…
- Got it’s name from one of our favourite and easiest meals to prepare from scratch: Pasta e Broccoli, an Italian specialty of Calabria learned from rIAm’s parents. If you don’t read Italian, all you need to do is boil your favourite pasta, cook a bunch of broccoli until crisp-tender, then toss everything in a hot pan with garlic and pepper flakes that have been sizzling in extra virgin olive oil. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Yum!
- Should include a lot more about food, but currently features rIAm and jft excercising their writing muscle and as it turns out, keeping our family and friends up to date on Chicago happenings.
