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Patron: Hand Distilled Luxury In A Bottle

6. May 2008

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Food & Spirits: In 1989 two visionaries, Paul Mitchell Systems co-founder, John Paul DeJoria and entrepreneur Martin Crowley formed The Patrón Spirits Company with the singular goal of producing “the best tequila in the world.” Since then, The Patron Spirits Company has become one of the fastest growing luxury liquor companies in the world, offering an [...]

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$100 Per Cup De’Longhi Caffe Raro Coffee

12. April 2008

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If you like you’re coffee smooth, silky and expensive, you might want to get yourself a cup of De’Longhi Caffe Raro which retails for £50 ($100) per cup. This blend combines two of the world’s rarest coffee beans, Kopi Luwak and Jamaican Blue Mountain to give a truly luxurious cup of coffee. For the uninitiated it’s worth pointing out that the [...]

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Eco-friendly Cutting Board with built-in flexible LCD display

7. April 2008

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The ubiquitous kitchen cutting board has now got a new lease of life with Nardo Design’s new high-tech Digital Cutting Board. This board comes with a flexible, yes you heard right, flexible LCD display that displays cooking instructions on it so that you can conjure up that meal, perfectly. And, while doing so, you can [...]

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Roblar Winery Opens New Wine Center

18. April 2007

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The Santa Ynez wine region is set to have a new destination. Roblar Winery is opening a new winery, cooking school and visitor center on April 28. The Roblar Winery & Vineyards will celebrate the grand opening with gourmet food pairings, chef demonstrations and live music. The lodge-style estate has a grand tasting hall, gourmet [...]

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Greek To Me: Anthos, New York City

19. March 2007

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Mezes are rapidly replacing tapas and antipasto in New York with the profusion of new Greek restaurants hitting the scene. Both high-end refined, inventive Greek fare and restaurants offering more rustic, traditional cuisine are proving popular in the Big Apple. Leading the Greek odyssey is dream team:Chef Michael Psilakis and the stylish hostess-with-the- mostess Donatella Apraia. [...]

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Aw Shucks: Oyster Bar, Farallon Restaurant, SF

8. March 2007

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Pat Kuleto is the God of San Francisco upscale restaurant design. I’ve always loved his Farallon Restaurant on the edge of San Francisco’s fashionable Union Square shopping district, because of its outlandish underwater theme to complement its fantastic seafood menu. Now, his new French-style Oyster Bar, adjacent to the renowned Jelly Bar, takes that theme one [...]

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Cart Across Italy in the Ferrari of Your Choice

21. February 2007

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The Turin, Italy based company Red Travel is offering a unique service that may intrigue those of you a bit more independently-inclined than the traditional Europe-in-luxury goers: you can rent a Ferrari for one to eight days and scoot your way around the rolling hills, through the countryside, parallel to the ocean, or you know, [...]

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Luxe Morsels: St. Barth’s Best Restaurants

10. February 2007

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St. Barths squeezes a lot of fine dining into an 8.1 square-mile squiggle of wind-swept beaches and high-fashion boutiques. While you'll find formal spots with flown-in luxury morsels — foie gras, steak, even lobster from Maine — the island's true barefoot spirit is reflected in its laid-back sand-between-your-toes places to dine and recline. addthis_url [...]

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Cheap Ways To Host A Chic Dinner Party

26. January 2007

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Hosting a dinner party is a fun and rewarding experience. In addition, it’s interesting to bring different groups and types of friends together to see what kind of chemistry might develop. But one of the dangers of playing host is that it’s all too easy to break the bank on food and décor. You shouldn’t [...]

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Trendy Food is Good, and Good for You

8. January 2007

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Photo Courtesy of King Arthur Flour From the Sun-Times piece: bite-sized desserts like mini cheesecakes are in, as are "locally grown and organic produce, flatbread, exotic mushrooms, salts, pomegranates and grass-fed and free-range meat." On the out list? Don't order starfruit, organ meats, kiwi, edible flowers, blackened items, okra, catfish and foams, or you will be [...]

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