Receta Time to Think Amore’

Day after Christmas, and already stores were filling aisles with gifts, candies and decorations for Valentine’s Day.  The New Year had not even been celebrated yet, but we were being programmed to think about a future holiday.  Besides the required gifts to “prove love”, a romantic meal is also part of this holiday.  Many restaurants offer specials expensive cuts of meat, or shipped in seafood like lobster.  You know, the types of foods only eaten holidays and special occasions, where the amount spent equals the amount love in the Equating love to a monetary value just does not right to me somehow.  However, history, marriages were arranged between families.  Was this a form of keeping…