By Bill Primavera Considering how content I am today as a family- and home-centered person, it’s almost difficult for me to remember my first holiday season in New York City. As a new college graduate, it would be the place
Read More“Aged wine” is a rather open-ended term lacking any specificity to a particular bottling. Your concept of aging may be a matter of a few days – or hours. Mine may be several decades. While one consumer may not have
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Of all the holiday seasons my wife Margaret and I enjoyed together, one of the most memorable was the year a decade ago when we moved to our current home in Trump Park in Shrub Oak. Christmas
Read MoreBy Brian McGowan And you thought you knew all about Santa Claus, being familiar with New York City native Clement Clarke Moore’s memorable “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” a contribution solidly in the top five list of Christmas must-haves. You
Read MoreBy Michael Gold This Christmas let’s give less. That’s the advice of Pastor Kevin O’Hara, of Pleasantville’s Emmanuel Lutheran Church. O’Hara says we should give less of ourselves to social media and the internet and give more of ourselves to
Read MoreBy Morris Gut Simi and Miranda Polozani, the dynamic husband-and-wife restaurateur duo, opened the flashy Bia American Kitchen at Chappaqua Crossing, an exciting dining addition to the former Reader’s Digest complex. The Polozani family also operates popular Prime Pub gastropubs
Read MoreBy Brian Kluepfel Birding can take on many aspects: observing birds outdoors, marveling at photographs of birds and reading accounts of avian-obsessed adventurers of days gone by. It all depends upon your fancy. This month, you’ve got a wealth of
Read MoreMatching wine with a particular food dish or menu is one of life’s simple pleasures. But we don’t enjoy wines solely with meals. Often, we are entertaining friends or enjoying wine as a precursor to a meal. What to match
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera My wife Margaret is a compulsive list maker. That may sound like something bad, but actually, I envy her ability – not to mention her desire – to make lists of things to do. By comparison, I’m
Read MoreBy Michael Gold Kendal Williams is an eighth-grader who made the varsity field hockey team at Lakeland High School, the gritty bunch who plowed through the other schools in their section and made the state finals, losing only to the
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