The gift-giving season is upon us, and whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukah, or the winter solstice, I thought I’d come up with some helpful suggestions based on this year’s blogs, month by month: January—Start the year off right with a sumptuous “king cake”: http://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/kingcakes February—Keep on hand those Valentine’s Day essentials: Veuve Clicquot, https://www.sherry-lehmann.com/wine/champagne-and-sparkling-wine; Valrhona [...]

Does everyone know the story of Kevin from the movie Home Alone? Poor Kevin, the youngest child in the McCallister family, is accidentally left all alone at Christmas time while the rest of the family flies to Paris (in French, the title of the movie is Maman, j’ai raté l’avion, which we can translate as, [...]