When Culinary Meets Celebratory at NYCWFF
When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot return to mediocrity. Perhaps the most accurate description of my evolution in life. And not just in the life of […]
Category Archives: Food Festivals
Which State has America’s Best Bloody Mary?
Don’t judge someone until you’ve heard their story. It’s alarming how much storytelling is part of our daily lives, our daily stories, all mingled and mangled to create and recreate […]
On to Alice’s Wonderland on a Dessert Decked Ansel-Brick Road
Why grow up? More like, I don’t want to grow up. I always channeled Peter Pan‘s vision with my infatuation with all things chocolate and candy. But perhaps more than […]
How ‘Taste of Chicago’ Turns into a Food Marketing Experience
I can resist anything but a bite sized temptation. A namesake piece of the very same has shown me that taste truly lies in smaller, sumptuous bites. And consequently, over […]
Eat. Drink. Repeat… The Grand Tasting at the NYCWFF
Something called a grand tasting inevitably sets up rather gigantic, if not majestic expectations. As the flagship event of the New York City Wine and Food Festival (NYCWFF), I was […]
Catching up with Celebrity Chefs over Demonstrations at the NYCWFF
Any Food Network fan will know the privilege of meeting favorite chefs on a channel that has catapulted food into the rankings of the Oscars, Hollywoods and showbiz filled glitterati […]
The Rugged Terrain of Chocolate (plus rivers of Booze)
Chocolate and I. We define inseparability. My relationship with the chocolate show goes back many years when an equivalently obsessed chocoholic-by-life-and-dentist-by-profession took me to this enchanting world. Many years and […]
Fashion Mantra: Draped in Chocolate
Ecstasy reigns supreme when my passions of food and fashion fuse with such ferocity that even the crackling lightning sounds like mere static. Yes, this is the epitome of my […]
Chocolate Devotion
Some things are a staple in life. Brushing your teeth without yawning. Checking the crawling time in a meeting. Turning a warm pillow around to sleep on the colder side. […]
3FS Lifestyle: Food Fashion Frameworks 