I have a long history of dabbling in “healthy” diets. Vegan, vegetarian, macrobiotic, grain-free, raw — I’ve done them all for varying lengths of time. When I discovered I was pregnant last year (auspiciously, my little man emerged from “the great beyond” on Valentine’s Day!), I just knew I was going to be the healthiest…
Our trip down south this month was a whirlwind of fun events, from our Lavish panels to lunch meetings with visiting friends and a fun team dinner with eight D*S editors at Hugh Acheson’s delicious new restaurant, Empire State South. After Lavish was over (literally right after), Amy and I ran to the airport, hopped…
Hello Design*Spongers, we’ve missed you. We’ve had a whirlwind of events going on, but are so happy to be back today with another turn-of-the-globe entertaining idea. This time when we spun, fate brought us right back to Europe with Belgium. Belgium: Beer . . . chocolate . . . french fries (dipped in mayo) ….
I planned to wait until Friday to write about this book, since that’s our recipe and entertaining day. But after three straight days of flipping through Baked bakery’s new cookbook, I cannot physically restrain myself from talking about it right. this. minute. Why? Because it’s that darn good. Before I dive into the book, I’ve…
food and france go hand in hand, but add in an american pastry chef, a fantastic blog, a few books and a dose of great humor and you have david lebovitz. recently, i was lucky enough to spend a day with david where we met up to go shopping at one of my favorite markets,…
image sources, clockwise from top left: sunset magazine, diana’s desserts, forecast earth, dopodomani, pure bar, jessica sayed The home my husband and I own was built right around 1930. As such, it lacks air conditioning. Since we live in the mountains of western North Carolina, on land sited in a forested cove, the lack of…
One of the reasons I love doing this column is the exposure to the individual talent and passion for all things creative of the people who submit. I would say that about oh, 90 seconds elapsed from the time we contacted Tracy Bull of Happy Owl Glassworks about submitting a recipe and the time it…
