Many major cities have a culinary academy and San Francisco is no exception. In fact, the California Culinary Academy on Polk Street has churned out dozens, if not hundreds, of prominent chefs who now are making names for themselves throughout the Bay Area and beyond with its Le Cordon Bleu Program. If you ever have…
It’s always been a luxury of time to window shop – looking into stores and admiring new collections. Often those clothes end-up in the hands of tailors who skillfully fit them happily waiting bodies. What if those clothes were made for you instead but being fit to your after the fact? At the Shanghai South…
After a day on the ski slopes or hiking trails, what better way to relax in the Rocky Mountains than with a glass of Colorado Cabernet. On the second level of a red-brick retail and restaurant center in the town of Winter Park, a mile north of the Colorado ski resort with the same name,…
The future is here. Microsoft just announced a new coffee-table shaped computer that utilizes a Windows Vista PC tucked inside a shiny black table base, topped with a 30-inch touchscreen in a clear acrylic frame. They will use five cameras mounted beneath the screen that can sense nearby objects and featuretouch-screen technology so people sitting…
Everyone who’s been to Grand Cayman knows the name Bob Soto. As one of the pioneers of diving in the Caribbean, he built Bob Soto Reef Divers in the 1970s to what is now an island institution. In fact, my first scuba diving experience was on one of his boats off of Seven Mile Beach…
Check out the Freitag Website to see their latest messenger bags, artistically made out of durable recycled stuff like dirty vinyl truck tarps, seatbelts, and bicycle inner-tubes. You can choose your bag two ways: 1.Do It yourself. Design your own bag. Just remember- it’s all your fault! …or if there’s not a creative bone in…
As everyone knows, after you have a baby, you might as well give up all your ideas of last minute romantic getaways and a worry-free good night’s sleep for the next 18 years! The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa believes that expecting parents should go out with a bang by having one last big romantic…
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I recently savored every morsel, crumb, aroma and packaging in the new Les Fluers au chocolate truffles collection from my favorite artisan chocolatier, Vosges Haut-Chocolat. You can’t imagine how delicious these nine truffles can be when you envelope the scents of roses, marigolds and nasturtriums for blooms that are even sweeter than they look. Even…
I saw an Apple iPhone TV commercial Sunday night stating that it will be available for purchase on June 29. After all, when CEO Steven Jobs promises a new product will be delivered on time, he meets his deadlines. (Sadly, the same can’t be said for rival Bill Gates and Microsoft’s often-delayed, much-maligned operating systems…
I get lots of travel-aids sent to me to try and I gotta admit, 90 % end up in the trash. I’ll never forget when I was trying one prototype blow-up “cocoon bed” that was supposed to turn your economy seat into a “cloud of comfort and let you arrive totally rested after a wonderful…
From June 1st thru 3rd, the Shanghai Exhibition Centre (SEC) hosted one of its most popular trade shows. In a city where tradeshows are big business, this one stands above the rest as one which makes people of any industry salivate – the Millionaire Fair. In its second year, the Millionaire Fair featured everything a…