The Salon Dinners ~ #1 through #60
“one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well…” ~ virginia woolf ~~~~~~~ Above ~ “RED” #1, Feb 18th 2012 ~ Deb Durant, Heike Liss, Beth Ann McFadden, myself, Christopher Willits,…
Food
My first 4 articles for Eat Drink Films….
I love goals ~ end of the year, mid-year, whenever. They propel me forward; and sometimes one needs this type of motivation… When I began this blog in May of 2014, I knew that I wanted…
Cal Peternell’s 12 Recipes ~ a meditation on mentors
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ~ Benjamin Franklin I came to cooking by getting involved. I would be in a specific place, and someone would…
an homage to oscar de la renta ~ october 20th, 2014
“there is always an emotional element to anything you make.” ~ oscar de la renta ~~~~~ the things we love are always emotional. whether people, places, or yes, the things we make by hand or…
Lightness/Weight ~ a visual diary… contemplating 50/50 Light
“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. but in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man’s body. the heaviest of burdens…
Wine Worlds ~ makers, distributors, retailers ~ sharing the love of wine…
“It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single…
Conjuring Britain & Venice ~ an intersection of inspiration, and interviews with Ant Sibthorpe and Simone Vitucci…
“Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it’s a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It’s only if I have an idea for…
A Mother/Daughter weekend in Lompoc & Los Olivos ~ reflections, memories…
“But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your…
Reflections from RN74 ~ Human Right Campaign’s SUIT UP runway show with Artful Gentleman 2014
“I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see, and then one day, something happened, something extraordinary, I got IN.” ~ Daft Punk, Derezzed ~~~~~ It’s always a wonder where inspiration comes from ~ sometimes…
Telluride Film Festival 2014, excerpts ~ a visual diary
“At last she was going to know the joys of love, the fever of the happiness she had despaired of. She was entering a marvelous realm where all would be passion, ecstasy, rapture: she was in…
Telluride ~ on Fashion, Film, Food ~ and a trunkshow at Wizard Emporium…
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” ~ Nelson Mandela It’s a simple idea, and I like to think of Telluride as…
A conversation with bill mayer ~ poet, educator, distributor…
ABOVE THE MOSEL VALLEY “Off in the distance, there are trees, and then nothing. The tall, lean winemaker and I are walking towards those trees, beyond which the world drops away. When I first met him,…