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May 1st, 2012 — Books, Gifts
A chic and humorous visual homage to two of the world’s most iconic cities. When Vahram Muratyan began his online travel journal,Paris versus New York, he had no idea how quickly it would become one of the most buzzed-about sites on the Internet-it garnered more than a million and a half page views in just a few months, and the attention of savvy online critics. Now Muratyan presents his unique observations in this delightful book, featuring visually striking graphics paired with witty, thought-provoking taglines that celebrate the special details of each city. Paris versus New York is a heartfelt gift to denizens of both cities and to those who dream of big-city romance. $20.00
www.penguingroup.com
Blog: www.parisvsnyc.blogspot.com
January 11th, 2012 — Advice, Books
The inimitable French style guru Madame Dariaux turns her attention (and her razor-sharp wit) to a subject of crucial importance to every woman: man. From Adultery to Zodiac, Madame Dariaux offers tips on every aspect of life with the male of the species. Whether it’s the battle of the bathroom or securing a diamond ring, Madame Dariaux has the right advice. From how to ensnare a man to how to keep him (or get rid of him), in the battle of the sexes the first rule is to be armed — and Madame Dariaux provides the perfect ammunition. $14.95, Amazon.Com
July 15th, 2011 — Article, Books, Cleaning, Cooking, Domestic Goddess, Etiquette, Health, Sex, Stationary, Things I Love, Tips
A few weeks ago, Mina, from the website MiniPiccolini asked me to share with her readers my top 10 favorite things for wives. Below are my favorite things every wife should have in her life.
1. William Sonoma - A wondrous playground for any wife who loves to cook in her kitchen. This charming store provides tools to make preparation easier, cooking classes for those who want to learn, and inspiration around every corner for those looking for creativity. www.williamsonoma.com
2. Mrs. Meyers – Every wife should have an eco friendly conscious when shopping for her household. Enter Mrs. Meyers… A collection of household products with essential oils from flowers and herbs that pack a real punch against daily dirt and grim. From dish soap to laundry detergent to window cleaners Mrs. Meyers brings a powerful clean and a garden fresh scent to your home. All their products are earth friendly, bio degradable, non toxic and never tested on animals. www.mrsmeyers.com
3. Emily Post Etiquette Book - Every wife should always carry herself like a true lady. Emily Post’s discourses on etiquette is said to be one of the most useful reference books published, next to a dictionary, a thesaurus and a world atlas. The new edition has discussions on perennially necessary topics, such as where to place a soup spoon when setting a formal table and whether one may wear white after Labor Day (the answer is yes). This integration of new material with old, showing respect and consideration for others while placing a premium on honesty, graciousness and deference. It also serves as a reminder of how individual choices may affect others and how easy it is to choose—words, wardrobes, gifts and actions—more wisely. $27.00 on Amazon.Com
4. Stationer - Every wife can benefit from a very creative and talented stationer. While I take my services to Jonathan Wright and Sugar Paper in Los Angeles, They are always there to help with last minute gifts and an abundance of greeting cards for every occasion. Your stationer can also aid you in the designing all of life’s celebrations from wedding invitations to birth announcements to personal stationary for thank you notes. Jonathan Wright 7404 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90036 323 931 1710; Sugar Paper 253 26th Street, Brentwood, California 310 451 7870
5. La Perla – Just like the age old saying “A lamb in the kitchen and a tiger in the bedroom.” What better way to inspire a healthy and consistent sex life with your husband than with luxurious lingerie from La Perla. Every man can appreciate his wife coming to bed in a flirtatious silk night gown or something else a little more provocative. www.laperla.com
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July 8th, 2011 — Books, Gifts
Often described as “the better half” of the husband-and-wife team, the role of wife is sacred and wide-ranging. The Wives’ Book celebrates all the quirks, traditions, and achievements of wifehood, including fascinating stories of wives throughout history, imaginative ways of celebrating wedding anniversaries, humorous and thought provoking quotes from literature, heartwarming tales from real-life wives, and practical advice for keeping your household shipshape and running like a dream. Delightfully informative and beautifully packaged, this is a lovely celebration of marriage and a great gift for all brides. Also look for “The Husband’s Book: For the Husband who is best at Everything.” $13.00 on Amazon.Com
March 22nd, 2011 — Books
A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wifecaptures a remarkable period of time—Paris in the twenties—and an extraordinary love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.
In Chicago in 1920, Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway and finds herself captivated by his good looks, intensity, and passionate desire to write. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group of expatriates that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
But the hard-drinking and fast-living café life does not celebrate traditional notions of family and monogamy. As Hadley struggles with jealousy and self-doubt and Ernest wrestles with his burgeoning writing career, they must confront a deception that could prove the undoing of one of the great romances in literary history.
$25.00 Amazon.Com
March 11th, 2011 — Books, Wedding
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March 7th, 2011 — Books, Domestic Goddess, Things I Love
Perfect for any California Wife with beautiful photography and a sophisticated wit, C is California’s arbiter of taste and trends—primarily in the areas of fashion, jewelry, people, beauty and home. It focuses on the looks, people, places, and events that define California’s style and its role as the creative center of the country.
C is Hollywood, yes. But also Silicon Valley, La Jolla, Napa and Palm Springs. The incomparable San Francisco. The rich enclaves of Beverly Hills, Santa Barbara, and Carmel. C celebrates the best of California life, style, and influence.
www.MagazineC.com
February 24th, 2011 — Books, The Husband
“How to Stay Out of The Doghouse,” $16.00, Amazon.Com
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February 11th, 2011 — Books
LAUNCHED IN JANUARY 2011, MATCHBOOK IS AN ONLINE LIFESTYLE PUBLICATION CELEBRATING classics - shaken and stirred. OUR MONTHLY ISSUES COVER PAST AND PRESENT FASHION, DECOR, THE ARTS, TRAVEL AND CULTURE. BRIMMING WITH INTRIGUING INTERVIEWS, STATELY HOMES, CAPTIVATING MEMOIRS AND SWOON-WORTHY FASHION SPREADS, MATCHBOOK SEEKS TO INSPIRE WOMEN AROUND THE GLOBE TO DESIGN A LIFE THEY ADORE. From lipstick to letterpress, gelato to grosgrain, and Paris to Peru, consider us your field guide to a charmed life.
www.matchbookmag.com
January 7th, 2011 — Babies, Books, Gifts, Kids
Twenty-one revamped, tongue-in-cheek, name-dropping nursery rhymes, This Little Piggy went to Prada is the must-have gift for yummy mummies. Politically incorrect, utterly frivolous and lots of fun. If the Sex and the City girls had a baby shower, it would be top of the gift list! ”This Little Piggy Went to Prada”, $19.99, Available for Purchase at Amazon.Com
December 21st, 2010 — Books, Christmas, Gifts
Clothbound Penguin Classics
The revered books of childhood and adolescence are now bound in a brightly colored, smartly embossed canvas covers to add that much more excitement to their enduring stories. Titles include: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Anne of Green Gables, The Wind and The Willows, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Secret Garden and Peter Pan. $16.99
www.Anthropologie.Com
December 7th, 2010 — Books, Giveaway, Travel
“Savor Susan Van Allen’s entertaining anecdotes and practical details as she takes you up and down the beautiful boot to immerse yourself in Italy’s pleasures. Discover such delights as masterpieces that glorify womanly curves, the palace where Audrey Hepburn lived in Roman Holiday, gardens where courtesans once frolicked, spas for pampering, beaches for relaxing, wine bars and jazz clubs, adventures where you’ll be making tortellini with grandmas, shopping for Italy’s prized ceramics, skiing in the Dolomites, or setting up an easel to paint a Tuscan landscape. No matter your mood, even if you’re simply armchair traveling, Italy awaits.”
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November 8th, 2010 — Books, Etiquette
A Lady at the Table will give any woman the knowledge she needs to maneuver any dining situation – from a casual meal of fried chicken at her mom’s house to a seven-course dinner at the finest restaurant in the world. It includes. . .
- How to set a table
- How to pronounce more than 100 different food names
- How to use obscure eating utensils
- How to perform the Heimlich maneuver
- How to eat more than 25 foods that are challenging to eat gracefully such as lobster, snails, fried chicken, and pasta.
In a society where more and more people eat with plastic forks and spoons at fast food restaurants, it is still important that a lady know proper dining etiquette. Showing she has little working knowledge of table manners at a lunch meeting or on a job interview over dinner may have an important impact on a woman’s life.
Like all the books in the GentleManners series, A Lady at the Table is easy to use, non-threatening, and an entertaining read. In addition to containing similar information as A Gentleman at the Table, A Lady at the Table deals with topics that apply uniquely to women such as how to respond when men rise as you leave or approach the table, how to react when a chair is pulled out for you and when it isn’t, what to do when a man orders for you, and how to pay the check graciously when you are hosting a man.
Brooks Brothers also published ” How to Raise a Lady” and “As a Lady would Say.” All books are available for purchase Here.
November 4th, 2010 — Books, Dress Up
When fashion sensation Anne Fogarty penned WIFE DRESSING: THE FINE ART OF BEING A WELL-DRESSED WIFE, little did she know the effect her words would have on generations of women. Nearly fifty years after its initial publication, much of this classic original text of the 1950s is as every bit as practical, humorous, and helpful today as it was then. A nostalgic throwback to days when women played the role of a wife just as dutifully as they donned layers of petticoats and cinched belts, Fogarty’s joie de vivre is irresistible, no matter the era. An updated introduction by Rosemary Feitelberg contextualizes Fogarty’s appeal within a broader social range and provides a behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most enduring fashion designers.
Complete with checklists that help chart a wardrobe plan and indispensable tips on everything from traveling to entertaining, this authoritative guide will strengthen every fashion I.Q. and aid in the search for the elusive quality of “chic.” WIFE DRESSING includes helpful suggestions for avoiding fashion traps, wise spending, and even has quick remedies for banishing the “haven’t-got-a-thing-to-wear mood,” providing all the while that there is indeed a fine-and perhaps lost-art to looking good for every occasion.
October 28th, 2010 — Books
Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins, will be published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday on November 2, 2010. Taking a cue from the exotic encyclopedias of the 16th century, which brimmed with mysterious artifacts, it focuses on the elegant, the rare, the commonplace and the delightful. A compendium of luxury that merges whimsy and practicality, the book traipses through all the fine arts, showcasing every sphere of style: fashion, food, travel, home, garden and beauty.
In the spirit of renewing old sources of beauty, and using an anecdotal approach, each entry proffers an array of engaging stories. Among them: the explosive history of champagne; the art of lounging on a divan; the emergence of “frillies,” the first lacy, racy lingerie; the luxe legend of sweet-smelling saffron; the riot incited by the appearance of London’s first top hat; Julia Child’s tip for cooking the perfect omelet; the polarizing practice of wearing red lipstick during WWII; Louis XIV’s fondness for the luscious Bartlett pear; the Indian origin of badminton; Europe’s 17th century false beauty mark fad; the evolution of the Japanese kimono; the pilgrimage of Central Park’s Egyptian obelisk; and the thrill of dining alfresco.
Encyclopedia of the Exquisite is a lifestyle guide for the Francophile and the Anglomaniac, the gourmet and the style maven, the armchair traveler and the art-lover. It’s an homage to the esoteric world of glamour that doesn’t require much spending, but makes us feel rich.
October 1st, 2010 — Books
In an exclusive excerpt from her new novel, American Wife, inspired by the life of Laura Bush, Curtis Sittenfeld offers a glimpse into a Waspy enclave and its reigning family, the Blackwells. Our heroine, Alice Lindgren, has just become engaged to Charlie Blackwell, and the happy couple is driving up to Charlie’s summer place for a weekend of cocktails, tennis round-robins, and family intrigue.
Excerpted from American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld, to be published on September 2, 2008, by Random House; © 2008 by the author. - Vanity Fair.Com
I had bought a basil plant in a small terra-cotta pot to give as a hostess present to Charlie’s mother, but we were less than halfway to Halcyon when I began to question my selection. This second-guessing occurred right around the time I came to understand that Halcyon, Wisconsin, was not, as I had previously assumed based on Charlie’s passing references, a town. Rather, Halcyon was a row of houses along a 700-acre eastern stretch of the peninsula that was Door County, and in order to own a house, you had to belong to the Halcyon Club. Apparently, you became a member by being born into one of five families: the Niedleffs, the Higginsons, the deWolfes, the Thayers, and the Blackwells. Charlie’s first kiss, he explained cheerfully, had been with Christy Niedleff, when he was 12 and she was 14; Sarah Thayer, the matriarch of the Thayer family, was the sister of Hugh deWolfe, the patriarch of the deWolfes; Hugh deWolfe and Harold Blackwell, Charlie’s father, had been roommates at Princeton; Emily Higginson was the godmother of Charlie’s brother Ed; and those were about all the intramural details I managed to retain, though there were many, many more, and Charlie shared them with increasing zest the closer we got to our destination. The families had purchased the land together in 1943, he said; they each had their own house, their own dock, and everyone took their meals at a jointly owned and maintained club. Oh, and the Halcyon Open would occur that weekend, the long-standing tennis competition for which a silver trophy vase sat on the mantel in the clubhouse and on whose surface the men’s singles and doubles champions’ names were engraved each year: Charlie had won singles in 1965, 1966, and 1974, and he and his brother Arthur had won doubles in 1969.
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September 7th, 2010 — Article, Books
Excerpted from Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn?, by Pamela Keogh, to be published in October by Gotham Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc.; © 2010 by the author.
1. DURING TIMES OF STRESS, YOU …
a) go for a walk on the beach.
b) meditate.
c) pour gin in your tea.
2. FOR YOU, SEX IS …
a) uncomplicated and fun!
b) a way of saying, “Thank you.”
c) a means to an end.
3. BEFORE YOU MEET A MAN FOR DINNER, YOU …
a) shave your legs.
b) run a Dun & Bradstreet on the guy.
c) break out your tippy-tallest Manolos and hope for the best.
4. YOU WAKE UP EVERY MORNING …
a) with your day completely planned.
b) and do whatever you feel like.
c) turn to the person next to you, and say, “Hello, dear.”
5. YOUR CHILDHOOD IS SOMETHING …
a) not discussed.
b) to be celebrated.
c) you’ve been running from your whole life.
6. YOUR FATHER …
a) loved you and gave you confidence.
b) was Clark Gable.
c) taught you to throw a football.
7. YOUR MOTHER …
a) scares the hell out of you.
b) left you all of her Balenciaga and Schlumberger.
c) secretly loves your little sister (you know, the “pretty one”) more.
8. AFTER YOU SLEEP WITH SOMEONE FOR THE FIRST TIME, HE …
a) offers you the lead in his movie.
b) asks you to marry him.
c) has a Cartier bibelot on the breakfast tray.
9. IN YOUR OPINION, MONEY IS …
a) everything.
b) no, we mean it—everything.
c) not that important—as long as you have a roof over your head and Veuve Clicquot in the fridge, you’re cool.
10. MEETING YOUR FUTURE MOTHER-IN-LAW FOR THE FIRST TIME, YOU …
a) convert to Judaism.
b) brush up on your French.
c) eschew underwear.
11. FORMER BEAUX KEEP UP WITH YOU …
a) on Facebook.
b) on the front page of The New York Times.
c) they don’t. They’re still devastated by the breakup. They’ll never get over it. Never.
12. YOUR BEST FRIEND IS …
a) your roommate from prep school.
b) your hairdresser, makeup artist, stand-in, publicist, housekeeper, majordomo, Peggy Siegal—or some varying combination.
c) just you, baby. Just you.
VF.COM EXCLUSIVE QUESTIONS
13. WHO SAID, “ALL MEN ARE RATS AND CANNOT BE TRUSTED?”
a) Jackie’s father, John “Black Jack” Bouvier
b) Gloria Steinem
c) Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot
14. WHO SAID, “JUST GIVE ME CHAMPAGNE AND GOOD FOOD AND I’M IN HEAVEN AND LOVE”?
a) Oprah Winfrey
b) Ina Garten
c) Marilyn Monroe
15. OF THESE MODERN-DAY CELEBRITIES, WHO IS THE LEAST MARILYN-ESQUE?
a) Madonna
b) Scarlett Johansson
c) Lindsay Lohan
Answers at VanityFair.Com
August 26th, 2010 — Advice, Books, The Husband
Don’t sulk when things go wrong. If you can’t help being vexed, say so, and get it over.
Don’t say she needn’t stay up for you. You know she can’t sleep until you are safe at home.
Don’t hesitate to mention when you think your wife looks especially nice. Your thinking so can give her no pleasure unless you tell your thought.
Don’t forget to trust your wife in everything – in money matters; in her relations with other men . . . Trust her to the utmost and you will rarely find your trust misplaced.
Don’t call your wife a coward because she is afraid of a spider. Probably in real danger she would be quite as brave as you.
Don’t scoff if your wife wants to drive the car.
Don’t rush out of the house in such a hurry that you haven’t time to kiss your wife goodbye. She will grieve over the omission all day.
Don’t ‘talk down’ to your wife. She has as much intelligence as you colleague at the office; she lacks only opportunity. Talk to her of anything you would talk to a man and you will be surprised how she expands.
Don’t sneer at your wife’s cookery or bridge-playing or singing, or indeed, anything else she does.
Don’t increase the work of the house by leaving all your things lying around in different places. If you are not tidy by nature, at least be thoughtful.
Don‘t try to regulate every detail of your wife’s life. Even a wife is an individual, and must be allowed some scope. - “Don’ts for Husbands and Wives, 1913″
July 22nd, 2010 — Books, Kids
April 30th, 2010 — Books, Etiquette
Drew Barrymore did it. Angelina Jolie did it. Britney Spears and Courtney Love and Whitney Houston did it. Well, those last three seem to be going back and forth between doing it and not doing it—but my point is that it’s completely possible to go from being a train wreck to being a good girl.
Look at the cases of those first two: Barrymore and Jolie. These two fine young beauties came back from a world of vices (Barrymore had a substance abuse problem and was in rehab before she was a teenager; Jolie’s adolescent tales were sordid, involving vials of blood around her neck and making out with her brother), and transformed themselves into caring, nurturing, smart women who are now world-famous actresses and, perhaps more importantly, great role models. Joining them is a whole roster of successful young women who rehabilitated themselves, from First Lady Betty Ford to actress Eva Mendes, to former reality show devil Nicole Richie.
Here’s why I bring this up: Even if you’re a train wreck, even if as you’re reading this book you’re drunk at a store and thinking about stealing it so you can trade it for a cigarette in the parking lot, there’s still hope for you. Even if you drink too much or pole dance to pay for your cell phone bill, you don’t have to be destined to an emotionally painful, liver-damaging, yellow-toothed, overly tattooed existence. Everyone has had a vice. Without fail, everyone still has one. (The person who tells you he or she doesn’t have any vices is lying—in fact, dishonesty is a vice in and of itself.)
Abraham Lincoln said, “A man without vices is a man without virtues.” So don’t lose sleep over your past. After all, part of youth is growing up and learning from your mistakes. Though your mistakes shouldn’t be so damaging they’re permanent: Don’t do something so toxic as a young woman that when you’re older you have a seizure every time you hear a bell ring; don’t pump your body with so many chemicals that when you have babies later in life they come out with three heads and twelve fingers.
But don’t beat yourself up, either. Even if you are a mess, even if you have become the type of girl no one respects, even if you are a tramp—it’s never too late to turn yourself around and become a lady. There is such a thing as second chances. (And third and fourth, for that matter.)
Here’s the thing: The perfect childhood doesn’t exist. Temptation is as old as time; or at least, the history of temptation extends as far back as the moment Eve gave Adam that serpent’s apple. But what sets the lady apart from the tramp is the ability to acknowledge she needs to clean up her act—and then, of course, the fact that she actually does clean up her act. Living a better life is an important decision, and one you have to make for yourself (no one else can make this decision for you, and it’s crucial to remember that you can’t make the decision for someone else, either).
Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I’m close to now. But I wouldn’t change them— or their pasts—for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.
And perhaps more importantly, their experiences have provided me with some of the most amusing stories I’ve ever heard. - Whitney Vargas for Elle.Com
April 27th, 2010 — Books, Wedding
Melissa Anderson Sweazy was a bride. When she learned that historically, the groom positions himself next to the bride so that he can hold her with his left hand and draw his sword to defend her (and himself from angry family members coming to reclaim her) with his right, she realized she needed to learn more. She did. A zillion wedding fun facts later she wrote this book called “Veiled Remarks: A curious compendium for the nuptially inclined.” $13.00, Amazon.Com
April 27th, 2010 — Books, Wedding
Sometimes, the bride’s support system needs a little support of her own—and who better to turn to than the wedding experts at Town & Country? This indispensable guide will help any bridesmaid fulfill her duties with elegance, grace, and complete confidence. It explains, in a clear and practical way, what her position entails, the proper etiquette for carrying out her tasks, and even crisis management. The Bridesmaid’s Companion covers contemporary concerns, such as the appropriate (and inappropriate) use of email, bachelorette and shower ideas, and financial tips for getting through a sometimes-costly process. And, because the book is organized chronologically, with time lines, checklists, and strategies, nothing will get lost or forgotten in the excitement. Highlighting the practical and informative text are anecdotes from former bridesmaids about their most memorable attendant moments…and reflections from real brides on how their bridesmaids helped make the big day so special. $14.00, Amazon.Com
September 27th, 2009 — Books, Quotes, The Husband
“So You’ve decided to have a child. You’ve decided to give up quiet evenings with good books and lazy weekends with good music, intimate meals during which you finish whole sentences, sweet private times when you’ve savored the thought that just the two of you and your love are all you will ever need. You’ve decided to turn your sofas into trampolines, and to abandon the joys of leisurely contemplating reproductions of great art for the joys of frantically coping with reproductions of yourselves. Why?”
- Bill Cosby
August 29th, 2009 — Books
The Second I got out of the Film “Julie and Julia” I Instantly wanted to buy her book about her time spent living and cooking in Paris. Unfortunatly when I went to Barnes and Nobles, the book I was searching for had the terrible images from the movie on the cover. Why do Publishing companies find it nessescary to butcher the cover of a classic book by putting actors of the movie on the cover. No I do not want to see Meryl Strep on the Cover of Julia Childs book…. I want to see Julia Childs on the cover of her book. Enter Amazon.com… I found a hardcover copy from 2006 with the orginal cover art. ( like shown above ) I got it in the mail yesterday and I’m as happy as a clam!
Available at Amazon.com for 16.95
July 16th, 2009 — Books, Kids
“All right, Noah, dear. It’s time to leave,” says Noah’s mom. Noah has other plans. “No,” he says. And then says it again. And again. And each time, his nose get crazier and crazier. A shattered, red-colored No! matches his rage, while a small, cursive no encapsulates his blithe obstinance. That’s just for starters: Warburton features two nos per page, then quarters that into four nos, then nine. The goofy creativity multiplies along with the refusals—Noah says Nyet wearing a Russian hat, O-nay as a pig, Negative as a robot, Hon’-Ka-Zhi from a tepee, and even uses hieroglyphics and Morse code dots and dashes. The pastels of the watercolor-and-pencil art quickly explode into a colorful chaos that concludes with the entire cast of Noahs singing “Nooooooooo” in a chorus. It’s a lot of fun and will feel familiar to any parent up against a child’s tireless opposition, and kids (maybe) will recognize their own silly stubbornness. The educational use of various languages extends the book’s age range a bit, too.
Harper Collins Publishing
$17.99
July 16th, 2009 — Babies, Books
This amusing shower or new baby gift celebrates the ups and downs of breastfeeding and gives the rapidly growing number of breastfeeding moms something they can really use-a good laugh!
Of the approximately four million women who give birth each year, 70 percent will choose to breastfeed. This delightfully funny book helps those 2.8 million nursing moms laugh out loud, learn with unexpected tips and trivia, and de-stress during the most exciting new phase of their life.
$12.99
July 1st, 2009 — Advice, Books
Words of wisdom for a happy marriage from nearly a century ago…The advice comes from a set of guidebooks on marriage written on the eve of the First World War…Penned by Blanche Ebbutt in 1913, they were first published at a time when women stayed at home while their husbands went out to work. Times have changed since then, but the advice could be considered as relevant today as ever.
I was so thrilled when I read an artical about these very fascinating books in Vanity Fair last year. And was actually shocked when I found them on amazon.com over the weekend. ( and very cheap a little over 4.00 for each ) These Books paired would make an amazing engagement or wedding gift. I’m still searching for first editions of both.
DON’TS for Wives:
DON’T let him have to search the house for you. Listen for his latchkey and meet him on the threshold.
DON’T try to excite your husband’s jealousy by flirting with other men. You may succeed better than you want to. It is like playing with tigers and edged tools and volcanoes all in one.
DON’T expect your husband to be an angel. You would get very tired of him if he were.
DON’T bother your husband with a stream of senseless chatter if you can see that he is very fatigued.
DON’T forget to wish your husband good morning when he sets off to the office. He will feel the lack of your good-bye kiss all day.
DON’T moralise by way of winning back the love that seems to be waning. Make yourself extra charming and arrange delicious dinners which include all your husband’s favourite dishes.
DON’T be jealous of your husband’s bachelor friends. Let him camp out with them for an occasional weekend if he wants to. He will come back all the fresher and full of appreciation for his home.
DON’T say, “I told you so” to your husband, however much you feel tempted to. It does no good and he will be grateful to you for not saying it.
DON’T let breakfast be a “snatch” meal. Your husband often does the best part of his day’s work on it and the engine can’t work if you don’t stoke it properly.
May 5th, 2009 — Books, Cooking, Mothers Day
What, exactly, do “ladies who lunch” eat at their posh parties? Dishes from “Park Avenue Potluck”- a recently released collection of personal recipes from New York’s top hostesses. Compiled by food writer Florence Fabricant and members of The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the book presents foolproof dishes for successful entertaining.
April 26th, 2009 — Books
February 1st, 2009 — Books, Cooking
Making your baby’s or toddler’s food needn’t be time consuming or complicated – and it allows you to control the quality of ingredients, taste and freshness. Written by Lisa Barnes, this cookbook takes all the guesswork out of cooking for young children. Each age-specific chapter features fresh and wholesome ingredients that are perfectly tailored to a growing child’s needs, from 6 months onwards. This essential volume begins with cereal grains and simple vegetable and fruit purees, then moves on to chunkier foods, and finally to real meals. Tempting photos and sound advice enhance the 80 recipes. Softcover, 143 pages. A Williams-Sonoma exclusive. $19.95 
As a mother of three, Jessica Seinfeld can speak for all parents who struggle to feed their kids right and deal nightly with dinnertime fiascos. As she wages a personal war against sugars, packaged foods, and other nutritional saboteurs, she offers appetizing alternatives for parents who find themselves succumbing to the fastest and easiest (and least healthy) choices available to them. Her modus operandi? Her book is filled with traditional recipes that kids love, except they’re stealthily packed with veggies hidden in them so kids don’t even know! With the help of a nutritionist and a professional chef, Seinfeld has developed a month’s worth of meals for kids of all ages that includes, for example, pureed cauliflower in mac and cheese, and kale in spaghetti and meatballs. She also provides revealing and humorous personal anecdotes, tear–out shopping guides to help parents zoom through the supermarket, and tips on how to deal with the kid that “must have” the latest sugar bomb cereal.
But this book also contains much more than recipes and tips. By solving problems on a practical level for parents, Seinfeld addresses the big picture issues that surround childhood obesity and its long–term (and ruinous) effects on the body. With the help of a prominent nutritionist, her book provides parents with an arsenal of information related to kids’ nutrition so parents understand why it’s important to throw in a little avocado puree into their quesadillas. She discusses the critical importance of portion size, and the specific elements kids simply must have (as opposed to adults) in order to flourish now and in the future: protein, calcium, vitamins, and Omega 3 and 6 fats. $14.99
