I made my Memorial Day weekend deadline to pull together our master bedroom in Southampton, but only just. On Friday morning I was still sewing the buttons on our custom Marimekko comforter cover (which I sewed myself! — but more on that later). By Friday night, though, all three of us (David, me and Eva […]
May 2012
It’s cool and a little foggy in Southampton this morning, but it doesn’t matter: it’s Memorial Day weekend, and come hell or high water, I’m firing up the grill. One of our favorite ways to eat grilled meat is with Chimichurri, a delicious and versatile sauce from Argentina that transforms simple meals of grilled meat into […]
This upgrade to the childhood classic chocolate sundae was actually the result of a total dessert failure. A couple of years ago, I offered to bring dessert to a dinner party in San Francisco hosted by my friend Marta. She had requested a lemon tart with a chocolate-lined shell. Overconfidently, as it turned out, I […]