I spent the holidays in NYC this year (you can read my reviews here)returning mid-January to mounds of mail which I only recently finished opening. I know, it’s a feeb excuse for not telling you about this fantastic, party-throwing guide, Simple Stunning Parties At Home, in time for your Christmas/New Year’s get-togethers. But it will…
You just have to love Berkeley resident, Jane Juska, for having the “balls” to have placed the following personal ad in, The New York Review of Books: >”Before I turn 67, next March, I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like…” After receiving over 60 responses, Jane wrote, A…
Although this is a three day event, I’m leaving town tomorrow so I only had one day to power-taste my way through 80,000 specialty food and drink products. I started at 10:00 am and waddled out seven hours later with my stomach as full as Nadya Suleman’s right before she gave birth to octuplets. Some…
It’s just about that time again…when zinfandel takes over the town of San Francisco for four days of fantastic food and wine. The 19th Annual Grand Zinfandel Tasting is the not-to-be-missed ‘grand finale’ of four events making up the 19th Annual Zinfandel Advocates & Producers Festival January 28-30, 2010, in San Francisco. The ZAP Grand…
Visions of sugarplums danced in my head while lunching at Jardiniere today (and this had nothing to do with the fact that for three Fridays this month Jardiniere is serving a special pre-Nutcracker matinee meal) since just seconds after I was handed the menu I had already decided to indulge in their Bonne Bouche Dessert…
Hoodie and Muff designer scarves by Letau Designs The best travel items are those that prove themselves to be “carry-on space-worthy” by serving double duty. Letau Designs’ has created two new versatile scarves that both merit a corner…and twice the compliments. The first is a reversible Hooded scarf can be worn up or down with…
As soon as I received my invitation to visit the extraordinary Round Hill Villa Resort, I immediately called my sister in NYC to see if I could crash at her pad the night before the flight. There was a LOOOOOONG, STONY silence. “Surely you’re not considering going on a girlfriend getaway to one of the…