April Grooming Guide: Looking Younger Than Springtime
“April showers bring May flowers” – which sounds promising. But then there’s also “April is the cruelest month” – which sounds less so. What a quandary is the month of April. You’re ready for spring fever, but…
Wolfgang Puck’s Bistro Academie Opens in the Ballroom at Philly’s Academy of Music
Back in the Eighties, a little known Austrian-American chef opened a restaurant on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, serving a concept called “California cuisine,” which, at the time, seemed an oxymoron to many food snobs. Yet, Wolfgang Puck…
French Chefs Convene in Philly for Gastronomic Partnership
For twenty-six years, Chef Georges Perrier has been Philadelphia’s premier five-star chef. A native of Lyons, Chef Perrier opened Le Bec Fin in 1970 as a small, thirty-five seat restaurant on Spruce Street. By 1983, Le Bec Fin was so well-known and…
Spring Fling Fragrances
It’s likely that more song lyrics have been written about spring than any other season. Just think of the numerous standards waxing poetic about spring: “Spring Is Here,” “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most,” “It…
Clipper Ship Cruising Along Costa Rica
Imagine a travel day that commences with the sunrise and sees you flying at 38,000 feet through choppy air, the plane rolling just enough to remind you anew of the wonder of flight – Is this your Icarus moment? – and then, some hours later,…
Costa Rica
The unofficial mantra of Costa Rica is "Pura Vida," a phrase meaning "pure life" or "good life," which is often used as a local greeting and which beautifully highlights the inherent optimism of Costa Ricans.
March Grooming Guide: Spring Banging Your Face
One morning in Harlem, Mr. Langston Hughes, Harlem Renaissance poet, stuck his head out the window and said, “spring kissed me bang in the face.” After three months of hats, scarves, and gloves, you know the feeling. Throw open the windows,…
deseo @ The Kierland: Scottsdale, Arizona
Given his widely-accepted status as the originator of Nuevo Latino cuisine, James Beard Award-winning Chef Douglas Rodriguez was almost certain to make an appearance in the American Southwest – and Rodriguez’s imprint at deseo (Spanish for…