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Mary Cashman

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Bites in the Big Apple

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time in New York City lately. Over the past ten years New York has been a sort of second home to me. For a while whenever we would visit the City, I would make a a point of trying a new restaurant each time. After this past year though, comfort and familiarity seem to be on the menu and I’ve focused on revisiting some of my old favorites.  My focus is always on south of Union Square, as  ...

Travel

Meatpacking and (Little) Island Hopping

There has been a lot of buzz lately about the new “Little Island “ park in NYC. Little Island is the love child of power couple Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg. It’s a public park that floats high on a pier above the Hudson River right by the Meatpacking District. In fact, it’s not too far from DVF’s store on 14th and Washington (coincidence?) New York’s Meatpacking District is a fashionable neighborhood abutting the  ...

Travel

When life gives you lemons…

I have been obsessed with all things lemon lately- painted lemon serving platters, lemon-ricotta pancakes, lemon print bikinis… Maybe it’s my presently unquenchable thirst to return to Italy that is sparking this new obsession. I dream of returning to Capri, the island famous for its gigantic, lucious and fragrant lemons. Life has certainly thrown quite a few lemons at us all this past year. We have been fortunate to have made our way  ...