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7 Dec
Since 2007, when fashion designer and philanthropist Donna Karan founded the Urban Zen Foundation, an inspiringly beautiful holiday market appears...
27 Nov
Islands are passionate things. They are the drips in a Pollack painting, the teardrop in an earring, the question mark and exclamation at the...
29 Oct
Cape Town is one of the world’s great cities. The setting alone is worthy of top billing. And then you have a vibrant culinary scene,...
3 Oct
My perfect hotel is a dream of another kind of beauty, of a different soundscape, a sublime civility. For a brief time I can inhabit a world...
1 Oct
I first heard of Chef Cesare Casella when half-listening to an interview with Ruth Reichl on NPR. I heard her say that Chef Casella had offered...
28 Aug
Meet the beauty of tea. The Way of Tea is an active meditation, a practice that has evolved over time from a relaxed gathering into the carefully...
27 Aug
DR’s south coast has always been the go to beach with its Caribbean waters, golf courses, all inclusive resorts and, indeed, some...
18 Jul
Just returned from a family trip to Portugal, a destination that surprised me with its lack of pretension, its keen sense of aesthetics...
25 Jun
Her name is Mabel, from the Latin, Amabilis, meaning loving, lovable, beautiful. Mabel is an orphan – loving, lovable and beautiful. 100...
14 Jun
Guntu is the name for the little blue crabs that snag in the fishermen’s nets, crabs that are not valued for their meat –...
7 Jun
John Derian is a treasure. It’s not that there aren’t many with talent and vision because there are, the world over. But Derian...
12 May
Provence in the Spring and Fall are magical times. Before the tourists arrive in full force, it still moves at its own pace. I have been visiting...
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