I know you all think I must be immune to this, but I go through phases of Down With Cooking all of the time. Sometimes, I’m just extra tired. Sometimes, the food outside the apartment is way more tempting, as it has been since we’ve moved into a new neighborhood full of intriguing sandwiches, hummus joints and more new flavors than I could pack into a year. Other times, I lack inspiration, or worse, an appetite as I did through that needling first trimester. Read More...
The Grand Hyatt Taipei (above, with Taipei 101) will relaunch on April 23, after an extensive renovation that began in August 2012. In a press release announcing the occasion, the Grand Hyatt, which first opened in 1990, is described as having been "the first, true international luxury hotel in the capital" and "the most seasoned hotel in the city". These are claims that might raise an eyebrow over at the Sheraton Grande Taipei, which opened as the Lai Lai Sheraton in the 1980s, and at the well-seasoned (though not international) Grand Hotel, which dates back to 1952. Read More...
Audrey Hepburn was 22-years-old and making her first big splash on Broadway in the title role of the musical Gigi when a mild mannered photo journalist, the late George Douglas, showed up at her dressing room and asked if he could photograph her. “He would have called her ‘Miss Hepburn’ — he was terribly formal,” Shan Lancaster, Douglas’ longtime friend, tells Closer. “He was so unthreatening, he was like your brother or dad. Read More...