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A Slice of French Coast

I’m not sure I can adequately describe how it felt to be in Europe again. It all still feels like a dream after a 3 year hiatus. But our week in the French Riviera (or Cote D’Azur) was better than I even imagined it would be. I had never been to the South of France. I heard of it of course. As a young child, I remember hearing one of the haughty soap opera characters on my aunt’s “stories” say she was vacationing in  ...

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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  ...

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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  ...