1967. Haight Ashbury celebrates the summer of love, the Beatles release Sargent Pepper, Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black judge on the US Supreme Court and Charles De Gaulle proclaims ‘Vive le Quebec Libre’. My family hopped on a boat…
Category: food
histories…my latest crush
Some people are star-struck by athletes, actors or musicians. I, however, am wowed by chefs. This is a long-standing predilection that I developed at the age of 5 upon meeting the legendary Paul Bocuse. I may have been too young…
detox and retox
Traveling with John is always fun, always an adventure; always full of excess. I just spent 4 days in three countries eating way too many stars; sampling way too many bottles. I couldn't help wonder if the fates were intervening…
julie in wonderland
Magic does exist. I found it in the woods of Eigensinn Farms last Sunday when I was invited to Michael Stadtlander’s PineSpiel Project. I thought it was just lunch, albeit a 12-course lunch. It was so much more. Yes there…
francis mallmann’s 1884
The minute we mentioned we were going to Argentina people immediately responded, “You’ll have to go to Francis Mallmann’s restaurant.” Even before he appeared on Netflix’s Top Chef he was probably the region’s best-known chef. He has four restaurants in…
good-bye margaritas
Move over margaritas, I have a new favorite cocktail! The mighty Pisco Sour. Tart, sweet, strong and awfully yummy. Invented by American Victor Vaughen Morris at his Morris's Bar in Lima, Peru around 1920. We found them served everywhere. The…