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” Calling Golden Triangle a store is like calling Chicago a village or Disney a carnival,” says one of my favorite bloggers, Tate Gunnerson, in his blog Secret Closets. I agree totally and also concur with his statement, “Golden Triangle is, without hyperbole, one of the most beautiful...
The Modern Wing of the Chicago Institue of Art opened with great fanfare last May and I wasted no time in getting over to see it. I recently returned for a second look at the massive structure with a 300 million dollar budget. The Modern Wing could be called a temple for the...
Recently when we spent a weekend in Chicago with some dear friends, we decided to treat them to dinner as a thank you for some wonderful kindnesses of theirs. I thought long and hard about what restaurant to book. These friends own two restaurants and a specialty food market, love food and...
Poking along Union Street is one of those activities that many tourists in San Francisco miss. This is a shame. It’s cute. It’s fun. It makes me feel like a local. It is a “real people” kind of place—patronized by the folks who live nearby.
Last week I had a wonderful opportunity to attend to the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco with my friend, Georgia, who owns a specialty Food and Beverage Market in Ada, Michigan. She was there to search out and to buy yummy new items for her store. I went to gawk and to taste and […]
While I love the typical scenes in San Francisco–cable cars, dramatic bridges, Alcatraz and Fisherman’s Wharf, I am finding it to be a city of visual treats wherever I look.
Recently I fell in love with a funny old town in the middle of the Hill Country of Texas. It’s where you might stay if you want to visit the wineries, the LBJ Ranch, shop, and enjoy bakeries, breweries and peaches. It was one of the first German settlements in the 1800s and is now […]
We couldn’t go to Austin without visiting the Mecca for Foodies, Whole Foods. In 2005, the grocery store that changed the way America shops, built a new 80,000 square food flagship emporium on the outskirts of downtown Austin designed to show off everything that Whole Foods stands for....
