Hello world and followers who are miraculously still visiting my much-neglected blog.

I have been cooking, just not blogging. But photographs have been taken. They are coming. Soon. In addition to cooking and taking pictures I have been writing, swimming, looking for pirates, reorganizing my closet, reviewing films, and some other things. I will soon take a break from all this mess to start sharing recipes again.

In the meantime, I was reminded last week of the particular delights of the Moroccan cappuccino. In Morocco, “cappuccino,” a friend and I discovered, is actually code for a qahwa nos-nos (that is, half steamed milk and half espresso) with an unjustifiable amount of good whipped cream on top and also chocolate syrup. They are delightful. And challenging.

If only cappuccinos in the U.S. were this exciting.