“Did you know there’s a guy named Nacho here?” Kathy Griffin asked The Observer.
We were on Governors Island for the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic, the fourth annual polo match that takes place in New York City. The crowd, a smattering of socialites (Lauren Santo Domingo in white, tiny once again three months after giving Read More
A ship captain’s folly, 200 years ago, has become a modern-day sommelier’s fortune. A recently discovered shipwreck found near the Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea was entombing 168 bottles of Veuve Clicquot Champagne and Juglar Champagne, and it’s said to be the oldest bubbly in the world. 168 bottles — talk about a booze cruise! Read More
On one of the first warm days of spring, I slipped out of my office to buy a bottle of wine for a dinner party. I didn’t have much time, so I ducked into the closest wine store, on 57th and First, and headed to the Bordeaux section looking for something familiar. Château Simard, a Read More
For weeks now, the concerned e-mails have been rolling in, between the penis-enlargement spams and the low mortgage-rate ads:
“Are you guys okay over there?”
“Just checking in. Worried about you!”
“Is it still okay to send our grandson to school?”
“Must be weird to be there now!”
Americans just can’t Read More
Meal of a Lifetime May Be
Cure for Orange-Alert Blues
Fling your paper down in disgust: The world is falling apart and here I am, eating a six-course black truffle dinner at Alain Ducasse! I was invited by a friend who felt that we needed cheering up.
The smell of truffles, which come Read More
Cecilia, Jennifer and I were fleeing Gotham in a white
Rabbit convertible. Cecilia had never driven the car much further than the
Hamptons. But now, we were all suddenly unemployed and single. Top down, we
sped down Broome Street toward the Holland Tunnel, three women in our early
30′s singing, “Ain’t No Stopping Us Now!” Read More
