Whether by train, plane or automobile, any excuse to pack up and skip town is a welcome relief come the blistering summer sun. When the city becomes a sauna, that’s my ticket to head somewhere–anywhere, beach bound. While many of us find ourselves overindulging the second that out-of-office auto response has been set, starting your [...]
July 27th, 2011
Edible Travel Necessities: The New Brown Bag
April 29th, 2011
Spring-Forward Cocktails (Part II)
11. Employees Only Everyone needs a neighborhood bar. But to be able to call Employees Only my neighborhood bar is something for which I’ll be forever grateful. Not that it’s a Wednesday-night-beer kind of place; the crowd at EO is always well-dressed, well-heeled, and sometimes tightly-packed on weekends. It’s the cocktails that make the scene, [...]
April 26th, 2011
Spring-Forward Cocktails (Part I)
As the warmer weather arrives, all the red wine and hot punch from the winter months becomes less desirable. The thought of warming my hands over a mug of mulled cider, as I so often did this winter, no longer seems appealing; with spring, thoughts of fresh herbs, flower blossoms, fizzes and flips take center [...]
March 9th, 2011
What’s Left Over
It’s just barely March. The temperature is rising, the snow is melting, and all along the sidewalks, the Christmas trees are appearing once again. Frozen under snowbanks all season long, the detritus of winter is emerging. After one of the hardest winters on record, the trash is what’s left over. In my fridge, leftovers abound [...]
October 27th, 2010
Season-a-Belle: Summer Recipe eBook
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. I’ve always thought that the Gregorian calendar does a disservice to those of us in temperate parts of the northern hemisphere. Starting the year in the cold depths of winter, after the holidays, blunts an otherwise festive event. After all, what really gets a fresh start [...]
October 1st, 2010
Season-a-Belle: Spring Recipe eBook
I am not one of those people who are always late. In the catering business, you can’t be. I learned early on the importance of schedules, timeliness, preparation, and forethought; without punctuality, I’d never have gotten very far. And without Erin, I’d never be punctual. When you’re throwing a party, twenty minutes can mean the [...]
December 18th, 2009
Season-a-Belle: Winter Recipe eBook
Tis the season to be spending ungodly amounts of time and money shopping and baking. And in a recession, that just strikes me as unfair. The holidays can prove trying on your wallet, your rolling pin and your stamina, so looking for shortcuts becomes a fore-drawn conclusion. If the harried holiday hubbub has left you [...]
January 30th, 2009
Facebook Fame
Facebook is an amazing invention. I was begrudgingly turned onto it by my ‘tween cousins who insisted that by joining I’d not only reconnect with the myriad of high school classmates I’d been distancing myself from since graduation, but “better” yet, I’d occupy hours of my life with a mindless addiction that involves little more [...]
January 20th, 2009
Inauguration Libation
It seemed like today would never arrive, but it has…and it is amazing! Today is obviously a day for celebration. With a brilliant new president and brand spanking new year, I’m thrilled to be an American, delighted to be a New Yorker, inspired to serve (in my community and more dinner parties for friends!) and [...]
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