Summer offers numerous opportunities for entertaining, from picnics at the beach to backyard barbecues, from cocktail parties with little bites to potluck neighborhood dinners. I love looking at newly released cookbooks to get fresh ideas for summer entertaining. I’ve selected a few new cookbooks with recipes offering exotic flavor combinations, suggestions for using the unusual vegetables in our CSA baskets and tasty tidbits to serve our families and friends.… Read more
It’s the weekend!
Happy weekend! We are headed to upstate New York and then to Connecticut to memorialize my husband’s uncle and visit family members.
I hope that you have a wonderful weekend.… Read more
It’s the weekend!
What are you doing this weekend?
We are thrilled to have another weekend at home. I’m hoping to work in the garden on Saturday. I’m going to make a strawberry-rhubarb pie! The weather is supposed to be good on Sunday, so we’ll head to the beach. Bliss.… Read more
Review of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Exhibit at David Zwirner Gallery
On the first Saturday of summer, a hot and humid day during New York City’s Pride Week, my husband, my son and I visited David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea and saw the gallery’s first exhibition dedicated to Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996). The exhibit is co-presented by David Zwirner and Andrea Rosen Gallery.… Read more
Favorite Things
A spring day in my in-laws backyard provided so many favorite things. A baby bird opens wide for food from its mother.… Read more