Dear Friends In a 1907 article titled “Turning the Old Leaves,” twentieth-century literary critic Bliss Perry asked, “Is the blank whiteness of the untouched page more pleasa ...

WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE Erica Bauermeister got the idea for her first novel while taking a cooking class. The experience made her wonder, what would happen if you put eight strangers t ...

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My mother was a woman who loved to host dinners and cocktail parties, wide-ranging in her choices of dishes, an early adopter of avocadoes and jicama. Her baked scallop appetizers, ...

“LUXURY MUST FIRST BE COMFORTABLE, OTHERWISE IT IS NOT LUXURY.”—Coco Chanel… ...

ADMONT ABBEY LIBRARY ADMONT, AUSTRIA Constructed in the late 1700s by Josef Hueber, a master builder dedicated to the principles of the Age of Enlightenment, the largest monastery ...

“AND THERE IS QUITE A DIFFERENT SORT OF CONVERSATION AROUND A FIRE THAN THERE IS IN THE SHADOW OF A BEECH TREE.”—Pietro Aretino SEE RECIPE INDEX, PAGE 103, FOR RECIPE INFORMA ...

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022 “It’s the persistence, the resiliency, and the passion that separates you from everyone else.” JULIE HUNT JEFFERSON LANE Fairfax, Virginia The daughter ...

Tucked along a charming tree-lined street in the Crescent City’s historical Garden District is a row of four identical shotgun houses built in 1880. Though the interiors of these ...