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Welcome to FoodMood blog space. Reflections on my travels, musings, favorite recipes, and the Bunny Chronicles. Storytelling with joy, sass, self-reflection, and hope.


An Accidental Blogger
Inception to Publication – what it takes to make a blog post. Notes on process. Working on Social distancing – A visit to Moscow, it...

Nicole Crabtree
May 16, 20203 min read


Social distancing – A visit to Moscow
This is a one of two portraits done by my friend Konstantin Zubrilan in whose studio I spent many wonderful salon like afternoons and...

Nicole Crabtree
May 9, 202010 min read


Musings on Lockdown
View of lake Lugano, at our first Qi gong group. Just before Lugano went on lockdown four soul sisters came together to do a session of...
Nicole Crabtree with Guest blogger Angela Lanza
May 2, 20203 min read


Back to "Normal"
My beautiful, magical carnations which give me joy a hundred times a day. It is the end of April as I write this and in Lugano we have...

Nicole Crabtree
May 1, 20203 min read


Ceci, my favorite bean
Chickpea. Garbanzo beans. Ceci. Chana. Gram. Top top mama. Nohut. Whatever country you’re from whatever you call it, this beautiful bean...
Nicole Crabtree with recipe from continuing guest
Apr 26, 20202 min read


Love Language in Lockdown
On one of their royal pillows, Bunny & Bearli pose on the terrace with their homemade masks, compliments of Poppy. Creativity in lockdown...
Nicole Crabtree with masks and video filming by
Apr 19, 20201 min read


Social distancing - send your FREE HUG today!
Click the image of me in Rome giving out hugs or this caption to see the video - and send it to someone who you want to hug/needs a hug...

Nicole Crabtree
Apr 13, 20202 min read


Social Distancing - Join me on memory lane in Vladivostok & the Russian Far East (RFE)
If you are wondering where Vladivostok is, go to Japan and take a left. For an image of the entire Russia Far East see the bottom of this...
Nicole Crabtree with photos by various friends and
Apr 6, 20205 min read


Coconut – Southern India and Sri Lanka in a nut and a cookie, literally
Bunny & the Bearli's admire coconut palms at sunset on the beach outside our guest house Whispering Shells in Kalutara, Sri Lanka. King...
Nicole Crabtree with recipe by Barbara Marchiando
Mar 30, 20203 min read


Community - the Indian Difference
Our happy family at Mysore Palace. Two months in India? What did you do? This is the reaction most people have when we speak about our...
Nicole Crabtree with video by Kenan Soylu
Mar 20, 202015 min read
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