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27 Oct

Hand/Eye Magazine

I first met Keith Recker when I was serving on the Board of Directors of Aid To Artisans, that remarkable organization which, under the stewardship...

26 Oct

Meditations on Travel #28

It is there in the eyes of a face different from ours halfway around the globe, in the fingertips of an artisan’s handshake, in the irrepressible...

20 Oct

New Nordic Cookout

Saturday’s upcoming New Nordic Cookout at New York’s largest greenmarket is further testimony to the huge popularity of ingredients,...

18 Oct

Grace & Beauty

14 Oct

Headbutler

Jesse Kornbluth, the eminence grise behind Headbutler, has been writing about culture for decades as an author and magazine journalist.  He...

11 Oct

Villa Gella (2)

A few months back I wrote a piece on a house that I had heard raves about.  Located at 5500 feet in the Rhodope mountains of southern Bulgaria,...

10 Oct

Coworth Park

I am told that Coworth Park’s main house once belonged to the Sheriff of Nottingham, that legendary figure who was tasked with capturing...

6 Oct

Steve Jobs’ Wisdom

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the...

5 Oct

Bulgaria

I have recently returned from an intriguing long weekend in Bulgaria, a country with diverse landscapes, deep history, magnificent treasures,...

25 Sep

Africa’s Legendary Leaders

For me as a New Yorker, the greatest compensation for the passing of summer and long days spent outside are the new art shows that draw me into...

22 Sep

Meditations #27

Most of us inhabit the middle zone. The challenge is to stretch to the limit of our capacity, to reach deep into the fertile valleys of our imagination,...

21 Sep

Gotham Greens

The “farm” is a rooftop greenhouse in Greenpoint, Bklyn.  State of the art horticultural and engineering techniques optimize crop...

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