Friday Night Wine Nights

After I took the bar and started working full time, I discovered how nice it was to grill something in our backyard on the UWS (yes, we had a backyard and a grill in Manhattan! Amazing, right!?!) and have a bottle (or most likely, three bottles) of wine on Friday […]


Modernist Cuisine

Last year for my birthday, Jason gave me the Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking after we saw it on The Colbert Report. It is a six volume set of books that starts with the history of food and moves through techniques and skills that have landed us […]


New salon, new holiday festivities, and a new taco place!

There are a lot of adjustments that come with a big move. For me, it has been not only adjusting to a new city, but also adjusting to being “retired”, as I’m calling it.  The changes and things that one must adjust to exceed anything I had imagined. The small […]


Hola! I have recently made a lot of big changes, and with that came a lot of newly found free time with which I have decided to start blogging (which is something I know nothing about besides the cool kids do it).  The idea came from the desire to have […]