Five years ago in these pages I put myself on a five-year plan to move to San Francisco. It hasn’t happened (yet). And technically, I have ’til harvest season to make good on my prediction. But the truth is, I’ve been planting roots both literal and figurative here in Boston, and I find myself walking […]

Last summer I made my first trip north to Maine, vowing to return in the fall to celebrate Mr. Mix’s birthday and taste test hot buttered lobster in the crisp autumn air…the things we food writers are lucky enough to call research! We landed in Maine’s Mid-Coast for our autumnal adventure, where we hiked Camden’s […]

Just about this time last year, I returned to blogging after a four-month hiatus to move to Boston with my man. During my break from the blogosphere, my bestie got engaged (wedding photos here), Mr. Mix and I traveled to Chicago for our annual Thanksgiving fête with his fam, and Papa Belle and I escaped […]

Autumn has brought with it a host of harvest hubbub. Tuesday’s Presidential Election rounded out a season that began with me making Thanksgiving Dinner on set for the McCormick web campaign I shot in Tasting Table’s Test Kitchen, and ended with a haunted tour through a Halloween corn maze, a return trip to Maine for […]

Last March Mr. Mix and I voyaged across the high seas of The Mayan Riviera on our first-ever sailing adventure. With plenty of moonlit seascapes, margaritas and mole to share, I promised to publish a feature-length telling of our Mexican tale, and this month my article hit newsstands from Mumbai to Manhattan in Spice magazine. […]