On the second Thursday evening of every month, you will not find me glued to the tube for must see TV. Instead, you will find me promptly seated, home-cooked meal in hand, ready to discuss stocks with the eleven other members of my Investment Club. If you consider yourself a novice, never fear. A year […]
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Lately, life has been anything but calm. In fact, I’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s been completely frantic. So, when my husband decided to whisk me away to San Francisco for the night as a birthday surprise, it took me a couple of minutes to work up what should have
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Asheville, NC has almost coined the phrase “farm-to-table dining”—so much so that you start to wonder if the expression means less than the overly debated “organic.” But, my jadedness quickly subsided as it seemed everyone actually did have their own garden and farm—from the Grove Park Inn to the grounds at Biltmore. This lush, mountain terrain is
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Aside from the Biltmore House, when I go to Asheville, I never miss a trip to the Grove Park Inn, a historic stone mountainside retreat that makes you want to snuggle up with a great book and a hot cocoa—even in the middle of summer. I’ve had a love affair with this hotel for years.
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Asheville, NC has been one of my favorite places to visit since I was a little girl. My mother used to spoil me with yearly shopping trips (it was home to the only Limited Two in the state). Nestled in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains, it isn’t hard to see why so many artists and
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I have never really spent the time to make a bucket list. But, if I did, attending culinary school would be at the top. Not so that I can enter the ultra competitive world ala Kitchen Confidential, but so I can impress my friends with impromptu dinner parties and surprise my husband with my new
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When I was a kid, it’s safe to say that I was not a fan of oysters— fried, Rockefellered and certainly not raw. Now that I’m an adult, my husband in his own gastronomic adventures, recently made a re-introduction and this time sparks flew (they are said to be a natural aphrodisiac—wink, wink). I had been
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