Month: January 2018

• January 12, 2018

  Cheers to the Publican, Repast and Present: Recipes and Ramblings from an American Beer Hall

  

  Invited by a friend to dine at Blackbird, Paul Kahan’s first restaurant, when it first opened in 1997, I was somewhat taken about upon first entering about how totally different it was from many of the restaurants of the time. The menu was farm-to-table way before the term had become a cliché, the setting minimalist…
• January 9, 2018

  The Faerie Handbook: An Enchanting Compendium of Literature Lore, Art, Recipes and Projects

  

  To me, fairies have always been about the holiday season—think the Sugar Plum Fairy from the Nutcracker Suite ballet and Tinkerbelle, the blonde-haired imp who wore a green outfit with matching translucent green wings in the 1904 play Peter Pan and knew how to handle a wand and pixie dust—both a job requirement. Imagine then…