Eat. Drink. Live.
There’s always one, isn’t there? A big storm hit the farm this March. It was a school and work days, so you know what that means. And also a nice brekky. Going back to help out the bees. And a walk […]
My favorite meal of our Destinate trip to Florida was at Crush Eleven in Cocoa Village. Suzy had primed me for the bacon-bourbon old fashioned, so that was a given: We shared Medjool Dates with Goat Cheese, Millionaire’s Bacon, Malbec Gastrique: […]
Not 10 minutes from our hotel is a wonderful nature preserve, the Viera Wetlands. It was the perfect place for an early morning walk. Look at all the birds! Amazing! Pink ones! Alligators are best observed from the […]
Suzy, being the food writer at Florida Today, knows how to pick a restaurant. And, not surprisingly, chefs know how to treat Suzy when she picks their restaurant. We arrived at Cedars Cafe in Melbourne, and the table was already […]
A rooftop lunch, and a walk around the little village of Cocoa, Florida. A very nice break from our Destinate work. Suzy and Annette in the wind. Windy. The downtown is cute. Afterwards, a coffeeshop work session. Palm trees. I’m not […]
Team Destinate is sets up camp at Florida Today, and discovers a lot of quirky old newsroom items. Here is a bust of Al Neuharth, for example. There are sheep. Morning news meeting. Long hallway. Mostly empty newsroom. Sadly, a […]
Suzy — my friend, Destinate teammate and the food writer at Florida Today — greeted Annette, Travis and me with a fun event: one of her “Secret Suppers” for subscribers to the paper. It’s a special event for the Insider […]
I am off on a work trip, to help set up Destinate for its next phase: a full-on expansion throughout the state of Florida. Here are a few pics from my Instagram story that day. Rainy day at Newark Airport. Orlando! Tarmac. […]
Some new furniture at the farm! Our new Nelson Eye Clock, nabbed at a recent Design Within Reach warehouse sale, and two new Noomi Swivel Chairs. Clock! Chairs! The chairs have replaced the red wing chairs, which were the last […]
The annual Oratamin Winter Social was a fun and fabulous party, held at Nikki and Danny’s house this year. Look at these fabulous women! Pics from the evening: Nice spread. More party-goers. Les dorkages: Megan goes in for the cake: […]
Our team in Trenton needs metrics. So we deliver them. Personally. Here’s the TV upon which they will display. Dan and I head down to the bureau, TV in the back of his Ridgeline. Our shop is first in line. […]
Rockland Lake on a misty morning. A good walk. Related posts: Rockland Lake Walk A Walk at the Lake A Snowy Walk at the Lake More Biking: 16 Miles to Rockland Lake and Back
I have become more than a little obsessed with the Spinach Salad at Cyndia’s. It’s a little luncheonette in Totowa, N.J., just a few miles from my new office. And this salad fits my new low-carb diet to a T. […]
When the chef says he’s going to cook for you, and you plead that he take it easy because you’re off carbs? And you have a great meal and still stick to your diet? That’s a great evening. Thank you […]
Carson McCullers — author, playwright, tragic figure — would have turned 100 years old this year. She spent more 20 years living in a house on Broadway in Nyack, where she wrote some of her best-known works, including Member of […]
A cemetery to the famous. And the not-so-famous. Green-Wood, a historic landmark, is home to the resting places of such notables as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Horace Greeley and Leonard Bernstein. At least those were the three we chose to visit. You […]
Next step on our Big Day of Fun: The Design within Reach warehouse sale in Industry City in Brooklyn. A balmy day, indeed. This is a similar sale to those that Greg has often worked in Secaucus. Tables: Furniture: Our […]
No sleep til Brooklyn! We are heading out on a Big Day of Fun people, and it starts right here with a delicious Thai meal at Pok Pok NY. Heading down in the family truckster: We were a few minutes […]
It’s been a while since I’ve shared a night at the theater with Boo. Sunset Boulevard with Glenn Close was a treat. She alone was worth it. I started with a Manhattan in Manhattan, at Brasserie Athenee. Grilled shrimp. Pretty […]
We haven’t been drinking many Aviations lately. But they are an old favorite. This one was particularly delicious. Absences makes the palate grow stronger? Aviation Cocktail Makes two drinks. 3 ounces gin 1 ounce maraschino liqueur 1 ounce lemon juice […]
Our first real big snowstorm this year. We weathered it fine, and at the end, enjoyed a nice drink. Cheers. Related posts: Snow at the Farm: So We Have Hot Chocolate Snow Day at Sour Cherry Farm Snow at the […]
Since the day I began my new job at The Record this fall, John, a reporter there, has been trying to take Ed and me to lunch at his favorite taco joint in Paterson, and to show us the Great […]
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The Record has a rich and long history, and has chronicled the history of North Jersey for more than 150 years. The archives are meticulously organized, and stored at the printing facility in Rockaway. We paid the archive a visit, […]
An exciting day for an outing to New York: The Women’s March was going on, and we got a bit swept up in it as we made our way to the Met Breuer to catch the Kerry James Marshall exhibition […]
A fine place for brunch on the Upper East Side is Orsay, which serves a killer bloody mary and some very tasty eggs Benedict. Paper butter cover. A kid burger for Samantha. Eggs benedict. A fine rendition. The 411 on Orsay. Related […]
As president of the alumni association of his school, Ed goes to a lot of St. Lawrence functions. This one — an event at the Morgan for interns spending a semester in New York — had the potential to be useful […]
This is the second time in recent memory we’ve visited the Trailside Museum and Zoo at Bear Mountain. I said it then and I’ll say it again: what a treasure! And this time, we got to see the bears, too! But […]
You don’t go to the Bear Mountain Inn for the food. But guess what. It’s actually pretty darn good. We’ve had two meals there in the past few months, and both were very enjoyable. This time, we got to sit […]
After all this travel and work, it was a pleasure to settle in for a long MLK Jr. weekend and do a little cooking. I made two recipes from the wonderful Canal House Cooks Every Day book, brisket and — […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
