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Easter in Key West

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Our Mango tree is laden with fruit about the size of mismatched Easter eggs, many of which have already landed in the pool or have thumped to the deck. But, God willing, enough will hang on till they grow and ripen in a month or so. Matt and family are in Naples, and Beck and […]

Debbie & Dick Young Congratulate Wine Director Lindsey Fern

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Lindsey Fern was recently named wine director at The Inn at little Washington. The Inn is rated #1 with much of America and Debbie and I second that rating. Lindsey is now the only female wine director of a three star restaurant in the United States. Judy Sarris of Gourmet Traveller Wine writes: Gourmet Traveller Wine […]

Dick & Debbie Young Congratulate Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin

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Congratulations to Glenn Youngkin, Governor-Elect of Virginia. At The American Spectator, David Catron explains the win, writing (abridged): All of the major networks and the Associated Press have declared that Glenn Youngkin will be the next governor of Virginia. According to Politico, Youngkin currently leads by 2.7 percentage points. Terry McAuliffe’s un-concession speech made it all […]

JUST SAY NO: Will Americans Fight Vaccine Passports?

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Americans’ cousins across the pond in the UK have begun what looks to be a successful protest campaign against vaccine passports. Will Americans join the Brits and demand their politicians block any attempts at medical segregation? Dr. Joseph Mercola suggests peaceful protests to stop the introduction of vaccine passports. He writes: March 20, 2021, on […]

Famed Chef Daniel Boulud Opens New Restaurant in NYC

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We are in Daniel Boulud’s cafe at the Brazilian Court Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida dozens of times a year. It and The Inn at Little Washington in Virginia are our two favorites on America’s east coast. Now Boulud has launched a new New York City restaurant at One Vanderbilt named Le Pavillon. Charles Passy […]

Paris Silenced in the Age of COVID-19

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In the New York Times, Roger Cohen laments that “Paris is gone for now.” COVID-19 has cut off its “lifeblood.” He writes (abridged): “We’ll always have Paris.” Turns out perhaps the most famous line in the movies was wrong. Paris is gone for now, its lifeblood cut off by the closure of all restaurants, its […]

Paris’ Plan to Turn Champs-Elysees into a 1.2-mile Garden

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Jack Newman reports for the Daily Mail: Paris’s most famous street is set to undergo a £225million makeover to turn it into an ‘extraordinary garden’. The Champs-Elysees, which is normally clogged with traffic, will instead become a 1.2-mile stretch of greenery with tunnels of trees, green spaces and pedestrian zones. Under the plans, the number […]