The best part for you the wine drinker is that because of the supreme quality of the vintage across the board, almost any of the 2007 Côtes du Rhône reds you can find at your local wine shop or grocery store will be outstanding values.

From my experience, city life is severely lacking in impromptu cookouts, friends dropping by unannounced and lingering meals at home. We’re all so busy double booking our schedules that we hardly make time to eat at all, much less make an evening out of it.  With the tenth anniversary of my life in L.A. quickly looming, I realize……

I don’t know about you, but I like to be known. I like to have a spot that I can call “mine.”  A place where I can go alone, sip a glass of wine, read a book and still feel right at home.  When I moved to Charleston nine months ago, I was on a……

Belfast’s Merchant Hotel isn’t the easiest place to find. Tucked away in the city’s charming Cathedral Quarter, this grand hotel sits on the corner of two narrow one-way cobblestone streets. But, oh, is it worth the search. After several months of hearing about how incredible the hotel was, I made plans to see for myself……

They say music is the universal language.  That sentiment will not get you far in France, unless you plan to sing your way for directions and recommendations. Parlez-vous français?  Who has time for such a daunting task?  Just when I was about to give up on this American girl in Paris, I discover Coffee Break French—a free……

They say Rome wasn’t built in a day. They should also say Rome wasn’t just built in Rome. In fact, a superb example of Roman ingenuity was built almost 1,000 miles away from Rome in the lush countryside of England. I went to Bath with one goal in mind—to spend my birthday walking the very……