I’ve been itching for an opportunity to write about the French table and kitchen linen specialists, Coucke. Seeing as we’re considering the voluptuous eggplant in the coming week and Coucke has a line of beautiful eggplant inspired dishtowels, well, here’s my chance. The brand has been [Read more]
Archive for October, 2011
How to Grow Eggplants
(image) Think of eggplant recipes, and many of the flavors you immediately conjure up are Middle Eastern — the musk of cumin or the silky punch of tahini mixed with melt-in-your-mouth roasted eggplant. There’s a reason for that. Eggplants need a long, warm growing season. They thrived in India and Arabia long before anyone thought to [Read more]
Visiting a Napa Valley Winery During the “Crush”
I was lucky enough to have been invited to the Louis M. Martini Winery in St. Helena, Napa Valley, earlier this month. This is a wonderful place to visit anytime of the year, but especially so in October when the the vineyards and wineries are a hive of activity. During a period of about 4 [Read more]
This Week in the Garden
This week, I was in Mexico (sigh, it was amazing). But while I was away I worried about my garden. The closest thing we have to an automated sprinkler system is when I email my husband and remind him to water the plants, so there was a chance things were going to be in rough [Read more]