Tag: eating

• My Life as an Ice Cream Judge

  

  I finally got the call that I’d been waiting for, the one I’ve been training for since graduate school, when I really perfected my craft of eating ice cream: I was asked to be a judge for the 2nd annual RI Food Fights Best Scoop Shop contest. Just a little background: RI Food Fights is,…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  August 21, 2019

  contests, food, lists

  best scoop shop, black raspberry, challenge, chocolate peanut butter, competition, contest, eating, Foodie, gelato, ice cream, judge, M-dogg, Rhode Island, RI Food Fights, rifoodfights

• “Let me not eat of their delicacies…”

  

  One of the practices I find great joy in doing is writing reflections. (You may recall a few months ago I shared an Advent reflection about what it means to go home for Christmas.) This process of writing reflections is helpful for me because it allows me to see scripture in a new way, by…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  March 23, 2018

  faith, food, holidays, writing

  church, delicacies, eating, faith, fasting, food, inspiration, Lent, meaning, Psalm 141, reflections

• The Truth About Venice

  

  My friend Manu, from Munich, who I met in New Zealand, came to join me on a trip to Venice. I’d heard that Venice is…not so nice—it’s dirty, the water smells, the people are rude (or mean? Or shady? Something other than ‘pleasant’)., so it wasn’t on my list of places to see in Italy.…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  August 4, 2014

  food, holidays, humor, travel

  American sayings, eating, food, gelato, Italy, overpriced restaurants, Piazza San Marco, St. Marco’s Square, the cask of amontillado, travel, Venice, when in Rome