Cooking with Panebianco Wine (and Corks) with Colavita at The Leopard
One of the most remarkable entrées ever presented to me was a salad composed of 100 flowers, which was created at the behest of Daniel Boulud by Italian chef Stefano Baiocco from Villa Feltrinelli in Gargnano—the memory of which enveloped me during a…
Rockin’ the High Life at Seminole Hard Rock Tampa
As the Hard Rock tagline has it: Love All Serve All—and everyone is winning with the brand-new $800-million expansion of Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa.
Manhattan Cricket Club Toasts to Tulum’s Upcoming Sundowner Yacht Club
In celebration of Sundowner Yacht Club's autumn 2019 opening in Tulum, restaurateur Heathe St. Clair hosted a preview evening at Manhattan Cricket Club and Burke & Wills, two Upper West Side establishments housed in the former digs of St. Clair's The…
The Seductive Romance of Provence Rosé
So pervasive is the shade known as Provence rosé that you almost wonder if that's what Homer had in mind when writing "rosy-fingered dawn." Of course not, but that evocative Homeric phrase applies beautifully to the rosé wines of Provence whose pale pink…
For That Wine Conundrum with Cantonese Cuisine, Try Lugana
For many of us, Chinese cuisine has proved something of a conundrum when attempting to choose the correct wine pairings—yet, given pasta's antecedents in China, it should come as no surprise to realize that Italian wines from the Lugana wine region pair…
NYC Pride Rally Reminds the World That “We Are All Stonewall”
On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, the 2019 NYC Pride Rally at Stonewall National Monument featured a rainbow-brilliant roster of inspiring speakers and performers who reminded the audience that, all around the world, "We are all…
New York Pride Celebrates Stonewall 50th Anniversary with WorldPride 2019
Bang the drums, shoot the confetti, dance in the streets, and march with Pride in honor of Stonewall 50, WorldPride 2019, and NYC Pride 2019.
Vinho Verde’s Emerald Beauty
As a center of viticulture since the Bronze Age, Portugal has become Europe’s fifth-largest wine-producing region, in spite of comprising only 2% of the total EU area (and about 2% of the EU population)—and of the nation's 31 D.O.C.'s, the largest is…