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“I just spent a week in New York with my husband and son and thought you should know that because of your guide EVERY meal was fantastic. We only chose restaurants from your book and am convinced we never would have found them otherwise. You made our trip perfect...not one bad meal!”Lynne H.
Park City, Utah
September 2011
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By meg , March 21, 2012, View Comments
I love flowers and vegetable gardens. But my short story is there hasn’t been space for them in my life over the last decade. You won’t find cut flowers on my kitchen table, and plant-eating pets have banished all the potted ones from my house. I warned the boss in my last office job not to count on me to keep alive the spreading ivy in my office. But I’m happy to snoop around other people’s flower gardens, including one of my favorite places, the U.S. Botanical Gardens in Washington, D.C.
By Kaie Wellman, February 21, 2012, View Comments
I have a dirty little secret … I'm not a huge lover of chocolate. It's not that I don't like chocolate, I do. But on the scale of things I lust to eat, it falls somewhere around chicken—happy enough to eat it, but it doesn't rock my culinary boat. Here's the kicker though, I find myself compulsively collecting chocolate. Every city I explore, every business that catches my fancy, I've got an eye out for the stuff and invariably I come home with a suitcase chock full of bars, nibs and truffles. Do I eat all this? Holy gut ache, no. I tend to nibble like a house mouse and leave the serious devouring to my husband and kid.
By Kaie Wellman, December 21, 2011, View Comments
In between lunch meetings, the business of putting together well over a dozen spring titles for rather and catching a plane in Denver, I slipped in a whirlwind shopping jaunt down the main shopping street of Boulder—Pearl Street.
By Kaie Wellman, December 3, 2011, View Comments
Yes friends it's the time of the year again for the new tradition of online gift guides. Seems like anywhere on the web you poke you'll find someone sharing their ideas for fantastic presents. So in the great spirit of giftguiding, over the next couple of weeks I will be sharing some of my favorite finds with you in hopes that you'll give a lovely gift to the small independent retailers in this country by spending your hard-earned greenbacks with them!
By Kaie Wellman, November 3, 2011, View Comments
Over the last few days here in Portland the temperature has plummeted and the mornings are frosty. This onset of winter is making me think a lot about bread.
By Kaie Wellman, October 24, 2011, View Comments
You know you have something burning hot to say when you find yourself writing on the back of a napkin. So here I am scribbling down my thoughts about meat. In this era of thoughtful eating where more and more folks are veering away from animal proteins, I'm blown away by the number of eating establishments across the country that have embraced beast eating.
By Kaie Wellman, October 20, 2011, View Comments
Just spent the last couple of days in Los Angeles at the Designers & Agents trade show with Phoebe Miner, one of the new ratherites. Not only was D & A a great place to catch up with some of our beloved stockists like LYNN Steven from Vancouver BC and Wendy Foster from Santa Barbara, LA was a primo place to introduce Phoebe to the rather experience.
By Kaie Wellman, October 10, 2011, View Comments
When I was hanging out in New Orleans in June with Lizzy and Matt, the editors of rather new orleans, I felt like I was being trailed by music. Everywhere we went in town, and we covered a LOT of ground, music was playing. Some was live, some was canned - but all of it was seductive. This is a town with its own moveable soundtrack