Weekend Inspiration: Preserving
After a nice Labor Day weekend break, it’s back to business as usual around here—and tons of cooking in the kitchen! As we head into September, and warm summer weather comes to an end, we’re welcomed...
View ArticleWeekend Inspiration: Apple Picking
While I loved traipsing through New York City during the hottest of hot summer days, sipping on Watermelon Punch and eating ice cream, I’ve been smiling all week, now that it finally looks like fall...
View ArticleWeekend Inspiration: Travel
My parents instilled the travel bug in me at a pretty young age—when I was a baby my mother took me on a trip to visit my aunt in Hawaii and we lived on U.S. Army bases in Germany for nine years...
View ArticleWeekend Inspiration: San Francisco
Inspiration abounds in San Francisco, with it’s beautiful landscapes and bounty of incredible produce. I fell in love with the city on my first visit in 2006 and I’ve traipsed up and down its hills as...
View ArticleWeekend Inspiration: Squash
It’s that time of year, when the markets are bright with orange gourds. And while some suggest we’re all a little pumpkin crazed by the time November comes around, I think squash is really where it’s...
View ArticleWeekend Inspiration: New York
I managed to escape the trials of Hurricane Sandy this week, safe on the other side of the country on a work trip in San Francisco. Now that I’m back on the east coast, I’m lucky to have wonderful...
View ArticleWeekend Inspiration: Autumn Splendor
Growing up, we had a closet full of special decorations that came out for each holiday. It wasn’t Easter until the yellow egg-shaped bowl was filled with sticks and topped with ornaments; Christmas...
View ArticleWeekend Inspiration: A Berlin Chapter
When I was a kid, my mother always told me it would be difficult to find someone who could give me the kind of exciting, world wind lifestyle my father had provided for us. Because of his job in the...
View ArticleWeekend Inspiration: Balance
I’ve only been in Berlin for two weeks and we’ve already managed to do so much! In between sorting out the logistics of moving to a new country—including a rather exciting trip to the local government...
View ArticleWeekend Inspiration: Christkindlmarkt
Through the rose tinted glasses of my childhood, Christmas in Germany seemed like the best thing on earth. A place where the cobblestones and medieval towns of fairy tales met with a month of pure...
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