Protecting Your Assets
This is so utterly hilarious I am posting the entire thing. Daily Candy fills up my inbox regularly. I am so fed up with their steals and deals, I rarely even open the emails, however this caught my eye. Protecting Your Assets The Paparazzi Protector Slip (Photo courtesy of Sheltini) Know what’s actually not sexy? Showing your vagina to total strangers. Know what else? Taking off a slinky minidress to reveal b

Jane and Hugh do lunch…
I am back from London, back from cooking lunch for Hugh Grant. Because I have written a piece for Parade magazine - out in December - I cannot tell you much about it until then, but I will just tell you this: He was utterly adorable. Thoughtful, curious, and disarmingly good company. He also loved my cooking, so he is extra-specially nice, and welcome to have lunch in my kitchen any. Time. He. Wants. Now on to more important stuff…the food. For those of

For Heidi
Many of you have been wondering where I have been, these past six months, and those of you who have followed my sporadic blogging will know I have been looking after my Unwell Friend. This morning, surrounded by her family, she died. And I am heartbroken. To borrow the words of Erich Segal: What can you say about a forty-three-year-old girl who died?  That she was beautiful. And brilliant. And brave. That she loved, in no particular order, and amongs

When Food is Love…
I have long been of the mindset that food is love. The reason I love entertaining so, is because it is the perfect way for me to show my friends how much I love them. These past few months, I have been cooking for my Unwell Friend. First, for her, a multitude of vegan dishes to try and help her on the road back to health, and of late, for her family. They laugh that they are the lucky recipients of my cooking therapy, and it is true, but it is also my way of giving, of showing my love. And it is because I do not know what else to do. I have had a couple of huge hits with the recent food. I used two recipes: Sheila Lukins’s Asian Orange Chicken, with Delia Smith

On the Couch
Every month a magazine comes out called Connecticut Cottages and Gardens, featuring perfect and gorgeous homes in our state. This month, their regular feature, “On the Couch” caught my eye. It starts with this question: “Do you think the furnishings and objects in a room reveal much about the homeowner(s)?” I then glanced over at the attached picture. After I ha