A few years ago my friend Irene and I started getting together on Friday afternoons for a late lunch — not every week, but as our schedules allowed. We ran into each other at Rhinebeck (knitters: I know, shocking) (non-knitters: Rhinebeck is where the New York Sheep and Wool Festival is held, every October. What. [...]
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My new go-to party handbook
April 5th, 2010 · 6 Comments · books
You guys. On the right, one of my new plants, as yet unnamed. (I name my plants. What?) On the left, the greatest book ever. It’s Esquire’s Handbook for Hosts, published in 1949. Dan found it while cleaning his apartment. He says it belonged to his grandfather, and Dan took it a long time ago, [...]
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