Editor’s Note: Last week, our regular contributor and friend Jennie Franks (of the Telluride Playwrights Festival) wrote a wonderful tribute to Judge Sharon Shuteran, who died earlier this month while hiking in Mexico. Her untimely death left her family and her extended in Telluride and beyond in shock. Sharon was the county judge who judged…
Sorry Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, the rain in Spain has absolutely nothing to do with the plain. It much prefers the hilly lands of the country’s northern coast. Reminiscent of the Irish countryside, la Costa Verde, or the Green Coast, is a lush landscape of rolling hills, verdant pastures and craggy shoreline. Celebrated as…
Editor’s note: We are so excited to have chef and photographer Lisa Barlow back on our pages with recipes you will want to print out and keep. Well, hello Spring! Brooklyn is blooming this week. Pretty pink cherry and magnolia blossoms are already showering their petals onto sidewalks and sunny yellow forsythia branches are cheering…
Editor’s note: Hunting & Gathering is part of an ongoing series by part-time local, regular contributor and foodie extraordinaire, Lisa Barlow. For all you foodies out there, look for more recipes and insights from the likes of Jeff Badger of Siam in the coming weeks. Sometimes on a cold day, all I want is a…
Every time I go to Mexico City, it seems that a fun new restaurant has opened in my favorite neighborhood, Colonia Roma. This time, acting on a hot tip, I showed up at Maximo Bistrot a few minutes before opening time at 1pm. “Espera” the nice woman setting the tables told me. “We are not…