Political Brief: Here comes the debt cliff

...and the infrastructure cliff

Dear Friends,

We shared a recipe with you last week, and we have another one for you this morning. This weekend, I cooked a meal of dishes from the Italian region of Calabria. The Calabrian vegetable soup and the baked ravioli were good. The dessert, almond cookies, were kind of a flop. The appetizer, though, which I thought would be an afterthought, is …