A chef I know uses coffee shops to assess what’s hot in the local food scene when he’s traveling. So in Nashville, we follow the coffee trail to two neighborhoods that are turning Music City into the next “food destination” in the South — Germantown and East Nash. Germantown We begin with dinner at Rolf & Daughters, housed in a 100-year-old brick “industrial-chic” … Nashville’s Booming Food Scene READ MORE »

In our family, Christmas was tradition-bound in the “over the river and through the woods” way. So the prospect of flying cross-country to spend the holidays in a hotel in Midtown Manhattan risked serious emotional disruption. Instead of the spectre of “Home Alone 2 (Lost in New York”), it was one of the most joyous … Christmas in Manhattan – Four Lessons and Many Carols READ MORE »