Changing Lanes: The Drive to Dingle

There are a few significant moments in a woman’s life when she feels like she can conquer the world: graduating from high school/college, getting your first promotion, buying your first home, walking down the isle, and bringing a new life into the world, with or without an epidural, are just a few of the moments [...]

Jody’s Travel Tips: Beating the Single Supplement Fees

Faced with the grim reality that a much needed getaway hangs in the balance only if you pay double for it makes you wonder, Which is more stressful – staying home or writing that check? What’s a single girl to do while this question lingers in the background?
Simple: Beat them at their own game with [...]

Holiday Cocktail Party Foods

he holidays are at time for traditions, especially at the table. A favorite aunt, maybe, is in charge of desserts and a cousin, perhaps, makes the best dressing. Food can be just as much a part of tradition as mistletoe is.
If you haven’t put your stamp on a particular dish yet, there is still time. [...]

That’s the Spirit! Fun and Festive Cocktails

Tis the season for parties. Well, maybe not company parties so much this year, but that shouldn’t stop you from celebrating with a cocktail party of your own. The theme is obvious, so embrace all the season has to offer. Christmas inspired cocktails are easy to pull and decorate off with festive garnishes like mini [...]

Celebrity Chef Recipe: Steamed Fish with Scallions and Ginger

From celebrate chef Anita Lo:
Steamed Fish with Scallions and Ginger
Ingredients:
-1 x 2# whole fish, scales removed, gutted and scored (such as seabass)
-Salt and pepper
-1/4 cup soy
-2 Tbsp. peanut oil
-1 dash sesame oil
-pinch sugar
-1/4 cup loose scallion greens, bias cut
-1 Tbsp. Ginger, fine julienne
Method:
- Place the fish in a shallow, heat-proof dish.
- Season lightly with salt [...]

SMW Immersion Travel: Learn How to Mush!

When I was planning a trip that required driving from Weston, Connecticut to Denali National Park, Alaska, my mother Ruthie asked me, “Isn’t there someone who’d like to go with you?” No, there wasn’t anyone else I knew who wanted to drive over 4,000 miles in 10 days in a Toyota Corolla, but I sure [...]

Zarela Martinez Creates an International Thanksgiving Feast

The holidays are a time of excess. We spend too much, we decorate too much, and we promise too much, we eat too much. And then we complain too much that we promised to make something amazing to eat, when really we just want to sit at a table and stuff ourselves, not slave over [...]

A Traveler’s Gift Guide

I love receiving gifts, but I also love giving a most carefully figured out gift to just the right person. I’ve gotten into many an argument over gift registries because I don’t like being told what to buy.
“You were in Williams-Sonoma and bought and sent her a salad bowl,” my friend Marlene called after her [...]

Best Kitchen Gift Guide Ever!

It’s mid November. Wow, how’d that happen? Before you know it you’ll be gobbling a gobbler at Thanksgiving dinner, and then it’s off to the races: haggling over parking spots like their lined in gold and circling the mall wishing someone had gotten you a personal shopper last year. This list of gourmet gifts just [...]

One on One with Top Chef Alum Andrea Beaman

Top Chef contestant, author and host Andrea Beaman has a lot going for her. She is the host of WISE UP!, a show that allows Andrea travels across the country in search of life-enhancing activities, alternative therapies healthy lifestyles, holistic health and organic foods.  And  coming soon Andrea will be hosting FED UP!, a cooking [...]

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