Year: 2013

TIP OF THE DAY: Celebrate The Cherry Blossoms With Special Cocktail Recipes

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Cherry Blossom Cocktail (photo © Haru Sushi | NYC).   This is a plan-ahead tip: Organize a cherry blossom cocktail party to celebrate the fleeting cherry blossom season. In Japan, the arrival of the spring season is welcomed with hanami celebrations, otherwise known as cherry blossom parties. Flowering cherry trees produce breathtaking white and pink…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Ways To Use Semolina Flour

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Semolina flour. Photo courtesy King Arthur Flour.   As we were writing about this past week’s Top Pick, Effie’s Semolina Crackers, we drilled down into semolina, the durum wheat-based flour from which they are made. Part of the review addresses “what is semolina.” We came across an article from Shubhra Krishan, author of Essential Ayurveda:…
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NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO: Paulette Tavormino Food Photography

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Figs, grapes and morning glories. Photo © Paulette Tavormina Photography | NYC.   There’s just one more week to see Paulette Tavormina’s exquisite still life photographs at the Robert Mann Gallery in New York City: Then they head to San Francisco. The show opens at March, a retailer of luxury kitchenware and other goods, on…
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