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]
I have been reading up on the many and varied possibilities of a little light cosmetic surgery in foreign parts. For it is very, very chic to get it fixed – whatever it is – in an exotic location, your own personal fountain of youth. Costa Rica for rhinoplasty? Brazil for your bum? South Africa. Thailand. Poland. Poland? …[Read more]
It has politics, history, architecture, Clinique and Calvin Klein - not to mention 80 percent of the wealth in Russia. Reggie Nadelson reports on The New Moscow. There's a shopping mall in the middle of Moscow, right under Manezhnaya Ploshchad—the massive plaza where serried ranks of Soviet tanks …[Read more]