I’ve recently been attacked by the green-eyed monster.1 My friend Elizabeth has left once again for adventure in a foreign land. She taught in Thailand for over a year and recently spent 8 months in Peru teaching English. Now she’s in Costa Rica, searching for a job amidst the sunshine and surf. The week of Thanksgiving seems an inopportune time ... Read More »
I just bought the November issue of Vanity Fair magazine, lured by Daniel Craig’s ice blue gaze and slightly smug expression on the cover, and a very long line at the grocery store. The Daniel Craig interview was a bit brief for my tastes (although he did seem like a guy who’d be fun to have a beer with), but on page ... Read More »
From the street comes the best things: a great dresser (once you get rid of the mouse droppings and find some handles so that the drawers actually open), a pair of all-they-need-is-to-be-resoled boots and, of course, all sorts of yummy food. I’m not talking about urban foraging here. Unless you consider going from food stall to food stall in search ... Read More »
Fellow blogger Claire and her husband will be pleased to know that I’ve come around to Greek wines. It isn’t that I thought of Greek wines as being bad, per se. It’s that I really didn’t give them much thought at all. Back in Sept, barVino closed its door and the staff took a field trip to NYC and the ... Read More »
I’ve been a Wes Anderson fan ever since I saw Bottle Rockets. Although it was released in 1996, I didn’t see it until six years later, when my brother moved into my apartment in Santa Fe and brought his insanely large movie collection with him. Containing everything from the 1928 black and white The Passion of Joan of Arc to the ... Read More »
I’ve read Emerson and Thoreau and tried very hard to read to The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (just couldn’t do it), but these things do not an outdoors woman make. Which is why I love that my friend Elizabeth is around to help motivate me to get up a mountain every now and then. After all, this is the Adirondacks. Tuesday, we ... Read More »
My friends who have children talk about how they are always doing laundry, but I have to say that owning a restaurant, I feel like I’m the one who’s always doing laundry. The laundry machine is constantly running. Yes, my sainted mother helps out by doing several loads a week at her place. But she’s out of town until Tuesday and ... Read More »
After sampling NYC’s best paella offerings and imbibing the best of Rioja this past Monday, the obvious conclusion to the evening was to stop at one of the many lovely restaurants on Mulberry Street for a little, you know, something before heading uptown to sleep. My mother picked out Balaboosta because of its charming, candle-lit interior. I also think she ... Read More »
I just got back from NYC and the 4th annual Paella Parade (hosted by Frederick Wildman), where I got to eat some amazing paella and drink some of my favorite wine from El Coto de Rioja. If you missed the Paella Parade this year, don’t worry: it will return in 2013 and you’ll have the opportunity to not only enjoy ... Read More »
From the beginning of football season until the Super Bowl, I live in a world of cryptic sentences and unfamiliar names, inside jokes and stealth maneuvering that leaves me utterly confused. Fantasy Football season is upon us once again and once again, I stand baffled on the sidelines. My dangerously cool younger sister is actually a part of the Fantasy ... Read More »
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