Handmade Luxury
Another sample of jewel queen Kate Coburn's consummate earring designs. These elegant earrings of chrysophrase in matrix, suspended from gold-filled findings, will be on sale at the upcoming Women at Work Holiday Craft Sale, Friday, December 5 from 11:30-1:30 at...
Small Plates, Big Scene
Sean Baker has created a short menu of flavor gems at Le Cigare Volant cafe. The new tasting room for Bonny Doon Vineyard wines offers items like this supple hiramasa crudo, unctuous with fennel olive oil and garnished with pungent cress and shaved fennel. This is...
Philly Tartare
Here's another reason why I love to visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The museum's restaurant invariably offers gorgeous lunch dishes for excellent prices. This salmon tartare, served on a bed of transparent zucchini ribbons and topped with shaved fennel and a...
Cheese Whiz
Everybody loves cheese, but few of us get to hang out with someone whose cheese lore is deep and pungent. That someone would be fromagiere Andrea London who can talk époisses and cabicou 'til the cows come home. How exciting it was to discover last week that London...
Dining Out When it Matters
Choose a favorite restaurant and patronize it. It will feed your soul, and help make sure that your dining place of choice weathers these rocky economic times. I was reading an article on-line yesterday about a family that excels at living within their means. Here's...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.