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Archive for 'Here & Now'

TASTE OF HOME

TASTE OF HOME

I could graduate from the Culinary Institute of America. Throw down with Flay and Ray this month at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Cook state dinners at The White House, the Élysée Palace, the [...]

American Fine Wine Competition preview

American Fine Wine Competition preview

 We know we will drink well whenever Shari Gherman joins the table.“I brought a surprise,’’ says Gherman, president of South Florida’s home-grown American Fine Wine Competition. “Two surprises, actually.”She smiles and opens an insulated wine bag [...]

TUESDAY AFTERNOONS WITH MR. PONCE

We catch up – barely – with 93-year-old James Ponce just before our 2 o’clock appointment in the hushed and polished North Loggia of The Breakers in Palm Beach. He’s chatting with the dozen or so [...]

The Accidental Tourist

When flying with young children, you’d be wise to plan for every conceivable emergency – and even then, be prepared to duck. By Mark Gauert I am a passenger in need of special assistance. I have [...]

AWESOME SILENCE

William Glackens Cape Cod Pier, 1908 Oil on canvas, 26 x 32 in. Ira Glackens bequest Courtesy Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale One East Las Olas Blvd. Fort Lauderdale 954-525-5500, www.moafl.org   In the room with [...]

COPPOLA THOUGHTS

Fine new wines from a winemaker of note in another,unrelated field. By Mark Gauert I raise a glass of cabernet sauvignon, and try not to think of the man who made it. I can’t. I try to [...]

My dinner with Mr. Clooney

I was nervous about my dinner with Mr. Clooney. He was a big star in this town, so well-known, so beloved. I was just a young editor, not long out of school, not known at all. [...]