Author Archives: marigold

In a Jam in Maine

Posted on March 6, 2011 by marigold

Brooklin, ME, is a tiny town that was  home to E. B. and Katharine White who met at The New Yorker, ultimately moved to Maine and were married for forty-eight years.  Visiting Brooklin, we went to the Friend Memorial Library … Continue reading →

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Tiptoe Through the Tulips

Posted on February 25, 2011 by marigold

This amazing photograph,(which I would credit if I knew who shot it), looks like a fabulous carpet or maybe a contemporary abstract painting.  In actuality, it’s an aerial perspective of tulip fields in Holland. Tulips were popular at the court … Continue reading →

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X Marks the Spot

Posted on February 17, 2011 by marigold

The official language of the Basque country of northern Spain and nearby France is Euskara, rife with x’s and z’s. (Look at the sign above: the only obvious words are “San Sebastian,” the city.) In Euskara, what I knew as … Continue reading →

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Let’s Hear It for World Nutella Day

Posted on February 11, 2011 by marigold

Somehow, February 5, National Nutella Day, slipped past my radar.  Nutella, for those who have avoided it either unknowingly or deliberately, is the chocolate/hazelnut spread  created by Pietro Ferrero in the early 1940s when there was very little chocolate available … Continue reading →

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Take the Vinyasa of Your Choice

Posted on February 5, 2011 by marigold

The first time I heard the title phrase, visions of condiments danced in my head as though  I’d been offered garnishes for a curry. Not quite. I was a newbie in a yoga class, dazzled by the lithe, twenty-something instructor … Continue reading →

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Hail to the Chef

Posted on January 24, 2011 by marigold

My friend, Arline, is to ordinary household cooks as Hollandaise sauce is to Heinz. What better birthday tribute for her than a cook-a-thon with friends and family at the Institute of Culinary Education? For travel,  think a trip to NYC’s … Continue reading →

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Don’t Cry for Me (in) Argentina

Posted on January 16, 2011 by marigold

“Mendoza now is like Napa Valley  was thirty years ago, ” I was repeatedly told.  Since my last visit to Napa was a good ten years ago,  I can’t compare the two but, overall, Argentina’s Mendoza, the main  wine-growing area,  … Continue reading →

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Breakfast in Paris

Posted on January 8, 2011 by marigold

Petite dejeuner, (meaning breakfast in French which  translates as  ‘little lunch’, a concept that never made sense to me), is typically a plain pastry and coffee.  In Paris last June with  Natalie,  above,  we had petite  dejeuner in one of … Continue reading →

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Eternity

Posted on January 2, 2011 by marigold

Dorothy Parker (above) is credited with coining the phrase “eternity is two people and a ham.”  Parker, poet, satirist and one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table,   reviewed books for The New Yorker under the name “Constant Reader. … Continue reading →

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On Dasher, On Salmon?

Posted on December 26, 2010 by marigold

My husband is Norwegian in  that  his father’s family came from Oslo and he spoke Norwegian when he was very young.  My strongest recollection of  Norway is a  day spent just outside Bergen visiting Edvard Grieg’s house. To reach the … Continue reading →

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