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It's been an eventful year at my place. For one thing, the place itself has completely changed: My husband and cat and I said goodbye to our tiny apartment in Hell's Kitchen and bought (bought! I still can't believe it!) a not-huge-but-nowhere-near-as-tiny apartment across town, on…
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I've always snickered at (or been mildly offended by) commercials that make finding the right cleaning product seem like a conversion experience. Can extra-special soap really make the world feel new? Is it even possible for the tile in my bathroom to sparkle like the tile on TV? (My tile is…
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The weather here in Manhattan has been all over the place: In the space of just an hour yesterday morning, we had bright (albeit gray) skies, a delicate snowfall, an apocalyptic dump of snow (we couldn't even see the building across the street!), and dismal rain. The common…
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Perhaps you have already seen Cold Stone Creamery's new ice cream cupcakes in stores. I haven't. But I got to taste them yesterday, and boy was that fun! Now, generally I…
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Everybody has a recipe for banana bread. Growing up, I loved my mom's moist, basic banana bread. Grandma Mannarino's tended to be a little dry (maybe it was also because she pre-sliced it before setting it out for company) but she sometimes added chocolate chips, so that was a tasty…
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I have mentioned it before, but it's worth saying again: I am such a fan of
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I like to think of myself as fairly low-maintenance: I usually dye my own hair, I don't use a blow dryer or a curling iron (since I've had variations on a pixie cut for the past several years), and my beauty splurges are few and far between. Working for REDBOOK (and having access to
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Years ago, during my first marriage, my then-husband and I worked our way from white wines to red, learning as we went. After a time, our "house wine" became Ruffino Riserva Ducale chianti, which…
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When my guy Rich moved into my home, Country Crock moved into my fridge. I am a strict butter girl, and always have been in fact, when I was in middle school my mom went on an I Can't Believe It's Not Butter kick and I rebelled, to the point where she made me submit to a blind taste test…
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I've spent all of my post-college life living in old city apartments. In many ways, the details have been lovely: Our first place in San Francisco had a working fireplace and a window seat in the bedroom, our sublet loft in Brooklyn had a sky-high ceiling, and we've now got ornate wrought…
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