When you grow up in Maryland like C did, some of your best meals take place on top of newspapers. We’re talking about crabs, of course! Since moving to California, our crab feasts have centered around Dungeness from the Pacific Northwest — and lump meat recipes...
Is there anyone out there who doesn’t remember their first drop of gin and tonic? Love it or not, it’s a singular experience for sure: the kick of quinine in the tonic, the gin’s vegetal blast, the lime’s juicy finish. We were even drinking gin and tonics...
Those psychedelic skulls we associate with Día de los Muertos aren’t just for November 1 and 2. Festooned with painted birds and flowers and ranging from golf-ball-size to the width and height of an actual human cranium, ceramic calaveras represent not only death but also the...
Last week on the Fourth of July, we welcomed a group of friends who drove down from L.A. for the weekend. (We also worked on our vertical herb garden — but more on that later.) After an afternoon of drinking dark-and-stormies on the beach —...
Oh, the lengths we've gone and the backflips we've done in pursuit of a cup of iced Coffea arabica: brimming mugs balanced in the freezer. Lava-hot joe poured over iceburgs. Whatever we did, it just didn't taste like our favorite cafe's version (sweet, complex and tea-like...
Two weekends ago, we traded the cacti of California for the Douglas firs (and snappy wildflowers!) of the Pacific Northwest. This mini-vacation included an enlightening trek to The Herbfarm, the James Beard Award-winning restaurant and dining tour-de-force in Woodinville, Washington. We also visited its five-acre...
Last Friday’s party at the San Diego Museum of Art spoke to the sensualist in us all. First, there were the visual fireworks of 103 artworks matched with 103 floral interpretations that made good use of ranunculus stems, globe thistle and naturally fluorescent king protea....
Saturday found us at the rosemary-lined house of our friend Danielle Gano, where we spent the afternoon painting chevrons on terracotta pots, drinking prosecco, and eating every kind of cheese imaginable. In other words: It was the perfect day. Danielle's the founder of bicoastal PR agency...
“I love moss. I love birch. My origins are Russian, so it just makes me happy, makes me feel like I’m back in my childhood, playing in the forest,” says NYC-based floral designer Bella Meyer, who is in California this week to create a show-stopping...
Grenadine is back from rehab. What was once a ruby goop known to languish in the rear of cabinets (until someone requested a tequila sunrise or a Shirley Temple) is returning to its purest state. We have Charleston-based Jack Rudy Cocktail Company to thank for grenadine’s...