Please pardon my relative quiet, dear friends. Life's taken on some interesting twists and turns recently and although I do have several nice blog posts waiting in the wing for you all, I'm just having a little trouble finding the time to put them together. I will promise at least one new recipe before the week is over, as well as some comments from yours truly on the slow rise of "food awareness" in the U.S. Next week, I hope to return to our regularly scheduled blog programming, but in the meantime, please rest assured that I didn't mean to leave you waiting......