Behind the Scenes: Family Recipe Week

An Artfully Delivered Oyster Roast

This week we were all scheming on oysters (after all, they are in season, being that January is a month with the letter “r” in it) and naturally I thought of my friend and well-known Savannah based artist Katherine Sandoz. You see, every year she and her family host a big annual oyster roast on New Year’s Eve at their little farm in Vernonburg. In a word it is magical.

Food-Inspired Interiors: Grapefruit

Interiors Curated by Holly Hollingsworth Phillips Grapefruit Photo by Chia Chong Grapefruit Photo Styled by Libbie Summers Grapefruit Photo model: Candace Brower  To wrap up our love of all things grapefruit […]

A Lesson in Geography and Modesty

There’s nothing like a worldly person to remind you you’re not.

When I meet Merveille Kasongo, her body language reads like one of those signs on the back of a semitruck that warn: “Stay back 200 feet.” Her arms remains locked at her sides and without smiling she looks directly at me with big dark eyes lined with lashes so thick I wonder how they could be real. My brassy American sensibilities are, of course, injured.