Recently my friend Karen published a new cookbook titled:  A Culinary Legacy From Escoffier to Today.         Karen read each and every comment and replied, "Wow! A difficult chore, as there were so many…

                  Photo and all text via: The Art of the Taakan by Gene and Linda Kangas and Nicholas Kondon via Creekside Art Gallery. For more information following this link: http://creeksideartgallery.com/articles/art_of_takaan.html       “In…

    French Antique Guessing Game: What is it? Do you know? My friend Mari and her daughter Shelby are visiting us from Texas.   As we were having dinner the wooden chicken on the table became part of our…

     Every Saturday I focus on a different artist that I admire. From potters to painters, chefs to collectors, seamstress to songwriters, lifestyle to lovers… anyone who set the paintbrush, pastry brush, hands and heart on fire to create.…

      Li Hongbo's mesmerizing sculptures are currently on view at Klein Sun Gallery in New York. After years of trial and error, he's perfected his method of layering thousands of sheets of paper and carving them into busts, replicas…