I never thought of myself as a “foodie.” Not that I didn’t enjoy food. Perhaps I enjoyed it too much, which is how I became significantly overweight and had a frozen pizza addiction. To combat my ...

This is part of Travel Firsts, a series featuring trips that required a leap of faith or marked a major life milestone. My twenties were full of transformative trips, each one helping me to find a ...

ROME — They lit up the Colosseum in the green, white and red of the Italian flag and celebrated with an evening concert, where government officials gave triumphant speeches to herald the big news. Yet ...