The Independent, August 1993 THE WORLD is slowly arriving in Sag Harbor,' says Detective Thomas Mackey. Over the weekend, I lost my innocence. And met Detective Mackey, a big handsome cop with a red crewcut - red with a blond glint, more like - some poetic rhetoric and tales to tell about the seamy side of Sag Harbor. On …[Read more]
…Among the dirty linen, a tale unfolds The Independent, August 1993 FOR JANE ZLOBEC, winter was always the most wonderful season in Sag Harbor, and there were snowstorms on her birthday every year. 'I was born on 5 December 1927,' she says. 'I remember drifts 6ft high on Main Street …[Read more]
She’s a peripatetic gourmet, an epicurean, and a culinary bon vivant—but she didn’t know how to cook. Until now. In the first column of an ongoing series, Reggie Nadelson seeks help from a real master of the kitchen. Early in the morning the foggy sunlight glints off the Thames through the large …[Read more]
This time around, our peripatetic gourmet, Reggie Nadelson, travels over theriver to Weehawken, New Jersey, to learn how to roast pork Latino-style. It's very simple, easier than roasting a turkey," says Maricel Presilla, pointing to the pig on her kitchen counter. There are some who think it's grandiose, …[Read more]
Pink, as Diana Vreeland once said, is “the navy blue of India”. Me, I want a completely pink Christmas, a tree with pink garlands, pink punch on the table, a pink holiday…
But let me explain. “Oh Madam, do please just leave your laundry anywhere and we’ll take care of it.” I am at the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in Mumbai (Bombay), ensconced in the Elephanta Suite, overlooking the Gateway of India, and this is my butler, Vistaspa, speaking: “Just leave it anywhere.”
It is a …[Read more]
The Guardian, 2002 It became New York's family album, a public scrapbook, a repository for pictures about September 11, in itself perhaps the most photographed event in American history. The pictures were hung in a small shop in downtown Manhattan, pictures taken on 9/11 and in the aftermath, at Ground Zero, from rooftops, bridges, …[Read more]
At this time of year, when you’re thinking about dieting to squeeze into a bathing suit in summer, think peanut butter. “Too many calories,” says a friend, as if I’d suggested a meal with Satan himself. But peanut butter is way in. PB diets litter the internet; there is The Peanut Butter Diet book, PB …[Read more]
IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT I’M writing in praise of a property guy – an estate agent. I’ve been coming to London for 25 years; I have spent half of them looking for the flat. Not just a flat; The Flat. It had to be light and charming but not seedy; most of all, it had to be in Notting Hill. When I first …[Read more]