Chasing Elegance with Cocktail Safari

Marji was the sister I wasn’t born with, but I got to have from the age of 15 on. We knew each other’s parents like our own and my parents loved her. My mother introduced her to cooking by giving her cookbooks. and maybe that’s what started her lifelong love of recipes ianccooking shows. She was my partner in crime and we shared basically everything from dishes to clothes to shampoo to lipstick. I look around my house now and I see the things like my deviled egg plate that ha

It’s spring in Montecito and the pink has come alive in my garden. Memories of carrying heaps of the freshly cut flowers in a wicker basket as I walked down State street in the children’s fiesta parade.Yes- that was a real thing – long since gone but it reminds me of a more innocent time when 8 year olds could actually walk down city streets unsupervised. How lucky I was to have grown up in a place with virtually no crime and so much freedom.

I live in the two best places in the world- Sun Valley and Montecito and when I'm not home I'm somewhere fun and exotic doing all the things I love: exploring, shopping, eating and drinking (not necessarily in that order). Card playing, Mahjong are also on my list.