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Jill’s career as a jewelry designer started when she was 3 years old. Forbidden to have pierced ears, she craftily resorted to gluing beads to her ears. The daughter of two designers, you could say she has design in her blood. You could also say she crossed an ocean to find it. While her design education from Cornell and Pratt gave her discipline, it was her travels through Europe in her early 20s that ignited her passion. Her love for shopping led her to bead stores, and her talent for putting them together in unique ways

quickly absorbed all the nuances of this period. Grief, Joy, Beauty, Longing, preservation and Love were all part of the language of these pieces and it was this that stimulated her enough to realise this into a 21st century setting. Fast forward a few years, Jo is still speaking the language of the Victorians and other vintage movements. The collection has grown to include Chillii, Lichens and wings, all still singularly suspended in space and trapped in time. Captured and set in glass. Worn by Tina Weymouth, modelled by Christy Turlington and admired by Halle Berry, these are timeless pieces that transcend fashion yet remain art.

found her her first admirers as she travelled on trains. It was then she realized that she could be making money to buy her an extra day in Europe. That extra day turned into a year, and Elements/Jill Schwartz was born. You’ll no longer find her jewelry sold on the beaches of Mykonos or hawked at cafés in Amsterdam. Her company’s brands are now sold in boutiques and major chains around the world. And while her mixture of unusual vintage and modern materials has evolved over the years, each piece is still unmistakably, inimitably “Jill.”

A rather fantastic selection of handcrafted totes and purses are now in stock, found by Steven whilst on his travels in Bali. Makes a fabulous gift or a treat for yourself.

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The United Skirts of America

The United Skirts of America was founded on the blood, sweat

From the founder and National editor

and estrogen of our

The Delicious Issue

foremothers, who

I am a person who yearns to throw memorable dinner parties. You know the kind in

won us the freedom to

books and movies—wine bottles littering the rustic table, strings of lights in the trees,

choose...to break The

creative types quoting T.S. Eliot, a moon rising above the trees. But even more, I yearn to have people cook for me because it speaks to me of love. Here is my earliest memory

Rules, to wear combat

of a meal: I’m on the floor in my grandmother’s kitchen behind the wood stove, asking

boots or high heels, to

for bacon. Is it a real memory? Or one I’ve been told? If it’s not real, I have made it so.

run for office or run a

I can see the dusty linoleum, smell the thick-cut bacon frying, see the turkey feathers my grandmother used to clean the stove top. “I want meat,” is my demand as the only

Renia Metallinou

marathon, to form our

grandchild, the golden girl, the chubby little dark-haired girl in a pinafore. A few years

Renia Metallinou is an

own rock groups instead

later, I wake up in a cold bedroom under piles of quilts. I can hear the low murmur

illustrator and graphic

of being groupies, to

of the farm report on the radio. It means my grandfather is up and has awakened the slumbering fire in the stove while my grandmother dresses. I dash from the warmth of

designer from Greece. She

shatter Glass Ceilings

my bed through the icy dining room into the kitchen, where we worship at the wood

lives in a small town a few

and Glass Slippers, to

stove. Bacon—always lovely, crisp, thick bacon. Toast, made in the oven and retrieved

miles away from Athens

shoot hoops instead

with a long, two-pronged fork. Eggs, gently turned and eased onto a plate. Real butter. Plum preserves from the tree I can see just outside the window. Smoky, strong tea, brewed

with her husband and

of settling for hoop

from a strainer in the cup by my plate. I’m a child, but my grandparents give me hot,

their two little boys. Renia

skirts. The ones who

sugary tea every morning. Having tasted heaven I will never be a fast-food child. Having

has worked mostly in the

came before us made

editorial design field for

it possible for our

magazines and newspapers

daughters to dream

(such as Lucky, InStyle and

bigger, to have the

HOMME magazines) for

chance to grow up to

almost a decade now. Since

be President and turn

From the Editor

2012, she has been work-

the Oval Office into

The endorphin rush of something delicious—at once new and familiar and perfect in that

ing as a freelance illustrator

the Ovary Office. In

moment—is something to eternally chase. When I like something, I’m head over heels

and designer. Focusing on

the United Skirts of

tasted love, I will always remember it.

Nikki

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in love with it and, like dinner party recipes, I’m ready to share. I want to watch your face light up too. A new song that I’ve had on repeat? We will sing it until you’ve got an

illustration was what she

America, every day is

inescapable earworm. This wine I’ve just discovered? I bought six bottles of it, come sip

always wanted to do, and

Independence Day!

with me. A new lipstick I can’t live without? Check your phone, I just sent you a selfie so

her inspiration comes from everyday life, love, dreams

you’ll buy it too. (Left in my perpetual wake are happy playlists, a clanking recycle bin and a drawer full of poppy-red lip products. It could be worse.) Delicious comes in many forms—to delight and savor, to feast and indulge. Life in Charleston has its particularly

and fashion. Renia loves

delicious moments—the cool salted air, the post-tropical storm sunsets, and sitting down

to draw delicate figures

to any table in town. This month, reach for Pam’s fresh-caught seafood, Marie’s expertly

and use bright colors, combining both digital and traditional media. Visit her

chosen wines, and Ericka’s sweet treats. And then I suggest doing it all over again. Go from like to love, one euphoric, endorphin-soaked bite at a time.

Margaret

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at reniamet.blogspot.com.

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This must be what real family feels like, I remember thinking. Nothing is missing.

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Grace Notes

Few of my Thanksgivings as a grown woman have been spent with immediate family. My parents are long gone and my brother lives in a different part of the country, so over the years I’ve experimented with how to spend the day. Often I have no idea where I’ll end up, or with whom, until the holiday has almost arrived. In the past, my mother always invited a “stray” to our family Thanksgiving table: an ex-girlfriend of my brother’s, a friend’s Spanish au pair, or the new hire at her favorite furniture showroom downtown. As a child, I sometimes resented her attentiveness to a stranger. Now that I’m often that stray, I appreciate the graciousness of the gesture in a new way. I like the unpredictability of being an import at other people’s Thanksgivings. I always bring the same thing—a pie—but rarely to the same house. One year an invitation leads to a cozy circle of contemporaries and the surprising warmth of friends-as-family; another year at a different home, the gettogether is nothing more than a pleasant potluck with three kinds of stuffing, topical conversation, and a hike in the woods afterward for those not watching the game. One of the oddest Thanksgivings thus far, though certainly not the worst, was a makeshift meal in San Francisco’s Cow Palace, a cavernous space usually used for livestock expos. Thanksgiving night, the night before the Dickens Fair opened, those of us who were vendors rushed to finish our Victorian booths. Just before midnight, the owner of one of the food booths under construction beckoned us into a back room. We put down our staple guns and hammers and joined him for a magnificent meal: turkey, garlicky mashed potatoes, a sweet potato pie with whipped cream that he’d brought from home. All of the foil serving pans were arranged on a long table covered with a cloth and set with votive candles. We said grace together, holding hands, before we picked up plastic forks and filled up our paper plates. Somehow this small communion, along with the wine and candlelight, transformed our surroundings: a freezing concrete building permeated by a powerful bovine odor left over from the rodeo held there a couple of weeks prior. The Thanksgiving I somehow remember best was spent at my writer friend Fran’s house near the San Francisco shoreline. Fog had swept in off the water early in the afternoon, cloaking the streets in a mysterious, wintery veil. Fran’s husband welcomed me and ushered me into the large dining room, where a group of people I’d never met were already seated, passing spiced pecans and wine back and forth. The room was light, filled with plants and artwork. I took my seat and enjoyed listening to all the delicious conversations bubbling up around me. Most of the guests were older than me, a motley group of artists, writers and their spouses. I didn’t even try to remember all the names once we’d been introduced, but I liked being among them. One woman in particular caught my gaze. She sat on the opposite side of the table from me, dressed in almost-edible colors—an avocado scarf, a watermelon-colored blouse, a cloche hat the color of raspberries. She was smiling at two people trying to talk to her at once, and her expression was weary and radiant at the same time. Throughout the course of the meal, the shrimp or the almond tart were passed to her before anyone else. Conversations were angled to include her. “Wouldn’t you agree, Jillian?” “Jillian, remember when Steve lost his car near the St. Francis?” I supposed she must be someone mildly famous, though I hadn’t caught her last name. She said little, but looked over at me a few times during the meal and grinned. I was struck by how wise and kind her eyes were, how thin her wrist was as she lifted her dessert fork. When most of the dishes had been cleared from the table, someone brought a guitar from a back bedroom, and all of us sang except Jillian, who listened with rapt attention to the lovely harmonies we managed on “Amazing Grace” and “Norwegian Wood.” A warm fire crackled and popped in the living room beyond, but there was a different kind of warmth here in our midst. No one seemed to want to stir from the table. A tangible feeling of love seemed to be swirling around the room, connecting us and anchoring us. The guitarist played a soft instrumental, lulling us into quiet. This must be what real family feels like, I remember thinking. Nothing is missing. A long while later, when we finally pushed back the chairs to migrate toward the fireplace, I realized Jillian couldn’t stand up on her own. In fact, she said she needed to go lie down, and a couple of the men supported her gently as she made her way out of the room and down the hall, the cloche hat slipping to one side of her tired face. When I went to help Fran wrap up the leftover turkey and make coffee, she told me that Jillian wasn’t famous in the least; she was a talented, marvelous friend whose ovarian cancer was past treatment. This would be her last Thanksgiving, as the others in the group well knew. At evening’s end, I made my way alone through the darkness a couple of blocks down to where I’d parked my car. Wisps of fog curled over and around the streetlights, and the world felt muted and blessed. I never saw Jillian again, though sometimes I imagine I see her wise face in a slice of winter moon— glowing, grateful for even a short stay in the night sky. Stacy Appel is an award-winning writer in California whose work has been featured in the Chicago Tribune and other publications. 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eeding time starts at 5am. Or should I say, the porridge better be ready by then, or else 44 crying babies will create mayhem, though they likely will anyway. This is not my first time in this Tanzanian orphanage, up the dusty brick steps or through the latchless door. And it is not the first time this place has made me contemplate motherhood and opportunity and injustice. But it is supper, and there is no time to consider these things now. I step into the laundry room and wade past threefoot-high piles of white onesies ready to be bleached and hung on the outdoor clotheslines. Footie pajamas hang over the sides of baskets, drying from bed-wetters the night before. Endless cycles tumble—normal, cold, spin, rinse. Through the mountains of clothes and just past the stale scent of powder detergent and urine, un-potty-trained toddlers blab in clumsy Swahili. They squirm and beg for attention and cry for the food they know is coming. The tables each have semi-circular cutouts like a first-grade classroom’s reading table. Five holes in each wooden slab hold hanging highchairs. I fill the seats, one by one. Babies bang on the tables and yammer to each other. Some cry and scream, and they open their mouths wide. Uvulae warbling. Waiting. Two nannies carry out pizzapan-sized trays boasting bowls of maize mush cooked in a pot so large you could fall in. I grab two bright bowls and position myself in the vacant cutout. Ready. Aim. The nannies shovel huge dollops of porridge into the babies’ mouths. They stir to let off steam. I work slower than the nannies, focused on getting the spoon to their mouths with some semblance of grace, careful not to pile too much porridge onto the spoon, careful of the temperature, careful not to spill. But three babies in, I have thick white sludge all over my clothes and the kids sport the same. So long as no one sees, I use the spoon to scoop the porridge off their clothes and into their mouths. They guzzle it down, taking only partial breaths in between bites. I move to the other side of the room where the smaller babies who cannot sit up by themselves lie on a blanket. I pick up Hidaya, who stares at me with her brown beady eyes. The nannies always dress her in yellow. I spoon the porridge into her mouth, and the mush catches on her pursed lips. I wonder if she knows about her mother. Her cry sounds like she does. I sense the never-ending drudgery of the institutional routine all around me. This is work and life in orphanages, but what else do you do with this many mouths to feed?

Next is Paul. After picking him up, I realize too late that he has peed through his cloth diaper and it has leaked onto me. The two-year-old is the size of a six-month-old. No one knows why. I hold him longer than it takes to feed him because he locks eyes with me and I can’t, in good conscience, put him down. Rosie, who has just learned to crawl, has found the dollop of porridge on the tile floor and has inched under my legs to lick it off the ground. I can’t decide if she is still hungry or just acting like a kid. I stop her, though with less urgency than I should, and look around the room. The state of the babies’ clothes lets me know who has been fed. Every shirt in the place is a mess. Mission accomplished. And then we start over. We perch a baby on each hip and waltz them into the changing room. We add to the piles of laundry. I cringe with every heavy diaper, with every breath. Despite the gasping and the pinching of noses, we carry the babies out with clean faces and clean diapers, content for the moment. They kick in their footie pajamas, and those who can walk play as their feet stick to the floor. They become clingy. The babies want to snuggle, and I oblige without question, holding Lynnette as she tries so hard to keep her eyes open. I pick up one tired child and carry him to his bed. I kiss his forehead. Another tries to climb the rail on the outside of his crib to get in. I pick him up to help and the two talk to each other in between the bars of their cribs, as heavy eyelids overtake their gibberish conversation. The six older kids get to stay up a little later. Raman tries to reach the itchy zipper on her pajamas and cries until I hand her a slippery cucumber, which she inhales. The kids sit in a circle snacking as another volunteer reads them a book about the alphabet. Clinton, a ball of charisma, climbs into my lap. He has one girl’s Mary Jane shoe over the left foot of his pajamas. He doesn’t like cucumbers and asks for a biscuit instead. No luck. We put them to bed with full tummies. Forty-four tired children dart in and out of sleep, as the nannies continue to clamor in the kitchen over a few extra cucumbers and a sink of dirty dishes. I leave the orphanage, back past the piles of laundry and the whirring washing machines. I walk to my hut just down the path with a flashlight in hand. I am exhausted and figure I should eat some dinner myself. Glaring into the blinding refrigerator light, I try to devise a strategy to sneak Clinton a biscuit tomorrow evening. My days find meaning in dirty hands pulling a little red wagon handle and watching babies stare at monkeys swinging from the trees outside. These 44 curious beings change me every day. I think there might be leftovers from last night’s lentils on the top shelf behind the milk, but I decide to go straight to bed instead. I’ve never felt better fed.

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y daughter Ally says I’m a hoarder. She may have a point. As I search the cupboards for a spanakopita recipe gone missing, hundreds of loose clippings cascade to the floor. Not one is from my mother. She’s bequeathed many wonderful things, but heirloom recipes and a deft hand in the kitchen are not among them. What tumbled from my mother’s cupboards were boxes of Cheez-Its and Ring-Dings. Mostly they brought private relief from the black hole of suburban housewifery. But every afternoon when I came home from school, my mother shared her stash while I shared the ins and outs of the day. I loved licking the salty orange dust from my fingertips and how the glazed chocolate shell yielded to the cake’s soft interior. Since my mother’s cooking skills were limited to sprinkling onion soup mix atop a cheap cut of beef, most of my childhood meals came from a box. We had almost no cookbooks. Just an ancient Fannie Farmer and a pristine Mastering the Art of French Cooking, the latter a gift from my father laden with hope and rebuke. One prized paperback summed up my mother’s culinary philosophy: Peg Bracken’s I Hate to Cook Book. But I loved to cook, or at least to experiment, and my mother loved to indulge my whims. Perhaps hoping to someday palm off the task of feeding us night after unending night, she never minded the spills on the counter or the mess of bowls in the sink. My first made-from-scratch cake had the heft and taste of a hockey puck. Yet my mother and I delighted in the rainbow frosting magically created from just four squeeze bottles of food coloring. By high school, I had graduated to fancy-dress dinner parties for my friends featuring Boeuf Bourguignon. Julia Child was at last put to good use. Still mastering the art of baking, I also served an inedible Apple Harvest Cake as cloying as marshmallow fluff. I have been collecting recipes ever since, and am renowned for my cakes: chocolate-espresso torts, lemon bundts that pucker the mouth into permanent ecstasy, an apple-walnut cake that lays to rest the ghastly sweet ghost of its predecessor. My daughter and I have continued the ritual of sharing gossip and snacks in the kitchen, with one crucial difference: From the time Ally could stand, she’s been folding wet ingredients into dry, absorbing my preference for food made from scratch. Once she even pulverized Cheez-Its, reconstituted the crumbs with water, and baked the soggy mass in a quest for home-baked goodness. When Ally left for college, I hand-copied her favorite recipes into a scrapbook. Like my mother, I enjoy the fruits of my encouragement—and of Ally’s labor. She gladly cooks for us every time she’s home. Ally has a lot of recipes to choose from: Joy of Cooking competes for shelf space with whole volumes dedicated to soup, chicken, pasta, chocolate, every world cuisine and passing food fad. Weight Watchers and vegetarian cookbooks stand ready in case I ever follow through on my good intentions.

But the books are nothing compared to big manila envelopes stuffed with recipes culled from magazines, newspapers, and the mothers of ex-boyfriends. So I’ve hired my daughter, who’s looking to earn some extra cash between college and a real job, to tame the mess. True to her generation, Ally seeks a technological fix. “Haven’t you heard of the internet?” she asks. I have. But online browsing can’t compete with sitting down surrounded by stacks of books and clippings to plan a dinner party, a week’s menus, or how to use the odds and ends at the back of the fridge. Ally is right, though: It’s gotten out of hand. So I set her up with scissors, double-stick tape, and notebooks to organize my recipes, most of which I’ve never tried. Like every hoarder, I hold out hope that someday I’ll put everything to use. “When are you ever going to make Buche de Noel with Meringue Mushrooms?” Ally inquires. I swear that this year will be different from Christmases past. But Ally lacks faith that my plans for show-stopper desserts will no longer fall victim to lastminute wrapping. Nor does she appreciate the value of multiples. Otherwise, she wouldn’t bother asking, “Do you really need another recipe for dal?” Hmmm. Letting go is hard, but I suppose not. One for the “Discard” pile. “How many different kinds of chocolate cake do you plan to bake?” Ally persists. All of them. Chocolate has its own special “Keep” pile. Now I get why hoarders go psychotic when well-intentioned relatives trick them into leaving the house, then move in with dumpsters. Since Ally clearly cannot be trusted with sorting, I must discern my own treasure from trash. Sifting through 40 years’ worth of recipes is like an archeological dig. Excavating the layers uncovers a civilization once heedless of time and cholesterol—1 cup heavy cream, ½ pound grated cheddar, ½ pound ham, just to make a noodle casserole. Or Duck Gallantine, which involves boning a duck and rendering fat for many hours. I have rendered a lot of fat in my life, and most of it is on my hips. I prefer a faster route, via scrumptious chocolate layer bars. The dig also reveals an era of unexecuted dinner parties that would have led to insurrection by Downton Abbey’s kitchen staff: Roast Saddle of Veal with Mushroom Sauce for 12; Ham Braised in Port with Brown-Sugar Crust for 20. My early browsing exposes a period of sheer fantasy: enough time and money, matching china and crystal, and a couple of Masterpiece cooks on loan from the BBC. This bygone epoch is overlaid by the reality of young family life, with lots of hidden-vegetable recipes. Next comes the modern era of chicken every-whichway and grains previously known only to ancient Incas. Finally I am ready to turn over the clippings that have escaped the recycling bin. Ally sets to work as I hover nearby to make sure she doesn’t jettison my multiple cheesecake recipes. Now we are cooking! In no time at all, Ally has brought order from chaos. She is also salivating. “Let’s make Portobello Bourguignon!” she exclaims, echoing my youthful pick with a vegetarian version sure to win over Julia Child. And so we do, working side by side, peeling, chopping, sharing the ins and outs of the day. I imagine my mother, Ring Ding in one hand, saluting us with a box of Cheez-Its in the other.

Lorrie Goldin is a writer and psychotherapist who cooks and eats in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her daughter Ally has just moved to Spain, but promises to bring home the secrets of making tapas. 60 novemberw2013 skirt!magazine

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"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

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Cornbread Dressing

BBQ brisket over baked apple hash “This dish speaks for the concept that we strive for daily: Simple. Southern. BBQ.” Garrett Priester Southend Brewery and Smokehouse

“I wait all year for the first taste of our cornbread dressing, my favorite dish of the year. Delicate cornbread baked with fresh vegetables, rich chicken stock and fresh herbs will make you fall in love.” Tracey Shor Whole Foods Market

Honey-pecan sweet potato casserole “My grandma was a home ec teacher. This dish of hers was one of my first memories I have with her. I’ve carried on the tradition, and it’s like Grandma is with us every Thanksgiving.”

MY FAVORITE DISH

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Thai Curries “Curries are fantastic for keeping warm on cool nights and make even better leftovers! Customize them to your mood or palate; add your favorite gourd, veggies, and meat to the mix to please even the pickiest eater at your table.” Noch Lor Pattaya Thai Restaurant

Wood-Grilled Mushroom Bruschetta

House-made Garganelli with Prosciutto, Fonduta and Kale “There is no substitute for fresh homemade pasta, and we make it nightly at Opal. Garganelli is a quill-shaped pasta, particularly delicious with this light but complex sauce.” Patrick Owens Opal Restaurant & Wine Bar

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“I never truly understood the potential of a mushroom until I tasted one cooked over a wood fire. This mushroom bruschetta is a great homage to our area since we use some really special ingredients like Mepkin Abbey mushrooms, Ambrose Farms greens, and local honey.” Nathan E. Thurston Stars Rooftop & Grill Room

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12th Annual

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TableTalk

Pam Rector puts dinner on your table. The seafood industry became a piece of Pam’s love story when her husband tied his shrimp boat at her dad’s dock back in high school. “I always said I wouldn’t marry a shrimper because you have to move around. Well, guess what?” They’ve been happily married for 47 years and own Geechie Seafood in Mt. Pleasant. Bubba works the boat and Pam spends her morning selling shrimp from their open-air retail shed before heading home for management duties. “We get to see all the sights of Shem Creek.” She has also seen the switch from highly commercialized waters to a smaller share of shrimp boats. “It’s dying out. There’s not going to be shrimp forever.” While the shrimp are still here, she’ll take them fried, but her favorite sight is “the beauty of them when they first come in and they’re so shiny and gray.”

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TableTalk

Ericka Kalinowski drives a sweet ride. The owner of Dulce Truck is getting the Holy City high—on sugar. “Sugar just makes people happy.” She serves it Southern-style as sweet iced teas with leaves sourced from Charleston Tea Plantation—Blueberry Basil Green Tea and Lemon Lavender Black Tea are the most sought after—as well as bakery-style with cookies, bars, cakes and more. Ericka started driving the truck in July 2012 and dubbed it “Dulce,” which is “sweet” in Spanish, to celebrate her family’s Panamanian origin. “It’s my own thing. It’s something different than just opening my own bakery.” You can find her parked at corporate and community events or catering and customizing desserts for weddings, birthdays and various parties. This month, she’ll be at the Blessing of the Vine and Jail Break. And in case it gets colder, she’s breaking out the flavored hot cocoas. “It doesn’t matter how big or small it is—that little bit of sweetness brings pleasure to everybody.”

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TableTalk

Marie Stitt has educated taste buds. Marie attributes her first taste of wine at age four to her Francophile/restaurateur father, Frank Stitt. Fast-forward about 20 years, and she’s working in brand development for Grassroots Wine wholesalers, which supports small, family-owned producers. “It’s something that has been in my blood forever, this idea of food and eating well and really respecting where that food comes from.” She maintained that mindset by studying diverse wine terroirs while working in Napa Valley and living in Europe. Since settling back in Charleston, Marie has helped pack her company’s portfolio with place-driven winegrowers from every major wine region on the planet. While establishing her own place in the production landscape, she’s noticed that women are definitely still in the minority among sommeliers and wine makers. “But all of that is changing!” she says.

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MY FAVORITE DISH. IN THE HOUSE

Shrimp Ceviche, tomato, lime, chile, cilantro, onions & fried tortillas

My mama’s green beans ’n’ bacon “The aroma of sautéed green beans, bacon, and caramelized onions still makes my mouth water and I can’t help smiling with memories of Thanksgiving and family gatherings.” Robby Struthers Boulevard Diner

“When you hear servers describe one of your creations to a guest as being like ‘shrimp cocktail on flavor steroids,’ how can you not like that?”

BBQ Mahi over brown rice with local veggies “Why put housemade BBQ on fish? Because it’s amazing!”

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Questions we always wanted to ask

QUESTION:

Venison Burger or Black Angus?

What food reminds you of the college days?

“Venison Burger. It’s far more flavorful and tender.” Laurie Thornhill Owner/Broker, Places Real Estate

“Chicken-fried steak!” Josh Silverman CEO, Jericho Advisors

QUESTION:

The perfect beer for November bar hopping? “Dogfish Head Pumpkin Ale.” Haley Shaw Blogger/Musician

I only have one

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QUESTION:

What is the most “to die for” cheese?

Most reasonable wine to keep in the house?

“The rich, creamy Hervé Mons Camembert made especially for Whole Foods.” Theresa Todd Specialty Department, Whole Foods

“$4.99 Chariot Gypsy Red at Trader Joe’s.” Natalia Davila Nurse Practitioner, MUSC

“Jiao Zi, the lamb and pork dumplings at Xiao Bao Biscuit.” Jenny Badman Writer/Storyteller

“Wood-roasted okra, spiced tomato gravy, fried okra, cotija cheese side at The Grocery.” Carolyn Evans Author, Forty Beads

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“The no-knead bread recipe from SullivanStreet Bakery.com.” Cheryl Smithem Connection Maven, Charleston PR & Design

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ESSENTIALS

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Aroma Bella Intensive Day Cream is my winter warrior.

Rx for close encounters. Popcorn, beer & Veep Season 1 My heart belongs to Honeycrisps.

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De-Lish

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Netflix plans to double its investment in original material next year, which will include its first original films as well as documentaries that will debut on the site. YES!

Charleston

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If you missed the Mac-Off... make sure you go next year. Great party.

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“Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands— and then eat just one of those pieces.”

Things That Make Us Happy Blanche Darby Florist put together a beautiful bouquet for us to send to Berlin’s to celebrate their 130th birthday.

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“If you don’t brand yourself, others will. And I can assure you that they won’t likely brand you in the way that you want to be branded.”

Wonderful local art at the new Bespoke next to Whole Foods.

The Paradise (PBS, Sunday Night) Variety calls it a “firstrate costume drama.”

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She crab soup

Upside-down pineapple cake cocktail “My current favorite Firefly spirit is Apple Pie Moonshine—my favorite recipe is one part Apple Pie Moonshine, one part Caramel Moonshine and three parts pineapple juice over ice—UpsideDown Pineapple Cake.” Scott Newitt Firefly Distillery

“Charleston sets the bar when it comes to she crab soup. I spent months refining my recipe to not only fit our nutritionally focused menu, but live up to expectations of Lowcountry foodies.” Jason Dalter Ladles

Dragon Tacos “I wanted to use an alternative protein and being in the Lowcountry alligator was a good choice. The gator is seared, then hit with sriracha and served with blue cheese slaw and pineapple slaw.”

MY FAVORITE DISH

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IN THE HOUSE.

Smoked turkey

Blackened snapper with honey saffron aioli “I am partial to this dish because it’s built with local ingredients— mostly from Johns Island—everything from the snapper to the artichokes, peas and fingerling potatoes. We have a lot of local treasures here.” Jonathan Greene Virginia’s on King

Turkey and Mushroom Meatloaf Sandwich “When it comes to comfort food—the simpler, the better. Nothing epitomizes ‘feel good’ food better than meatloaf. Rutledge Cab Co.’s meatloaf sandwich is so popular we couldn’t dream of leaving it off our new menu.”

“Every step of preparation excites me, from curing turkey the night before, getting up in the wee hours of the morning to start a fire, and finally carving and enjoying with friends and family.” Troy Timpner Long Point Grill

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Meet: Christina Orso, the bubbly local blogger behind hungrymeetshealthy.com.

Right Now I’m Reading: The Science of Good Cooking

My Lucky Charm: Pearl necklace from my best friend, Danielle

My Handbag: Louis Vuitton Speedy

My Celebrity Crush Is: Danny Amendola, Patriots wide receiver

Always in My Purse: Snacks and lipgloss

Favorite Restaurant: The Macintosh Where I Shop Locally: Handpicked Dream Vacation: Greece Shoes I Covet: Salvatore Ferragamo’s Trilly My Workout: Training for my second half marathon. And cartwheels. Favorite Shoes: Wedges Where I Get My Coffee: Collective Coffee Co. My Coffee Order: Almond milk latte Favorite Flower: Lilacs Where You’ll Find Me On Friday Nights: On a dance floor Where You’ll Find Me On Saturday Mornings: Running the bridge My Guilty Pleasure: Cookies and Bravo TV My Bad Habit: Breaking hearts…and electronics My Gadget: iPhone Favorite TV Show: Parks & Recreation Favorite Feminist: Bethenny Frankel My Secret Ambition: To have my own talk show A Goal for 2014: Be more mindful Tweet Me: @christinaorso My Cocktail: Tequila, St. Germain, soda and lime My Girl Crush: Doutzen Kroes My Favorite Beauty Product Is: MAC Plush Lash Mascara My Manicure: Changes every three days My Stress Reliever: Baking I Splurge On: Dining out If Not Charleston…Boston Describe Yourself In 3 Words: Bubbly. Passionate. Energetic. My Favorite Trip Was: Italy

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I love the bittersweet loneliness of an empty field at dusk, wind chimes in the night, the light in autumn, a single hawk in a high blue sky, someone lost reappearing in my dream, 'ja ' vu moments, lighted rooms of strangers passing isolated farmhouses on back roads, de

from the street outside, bare trees silhouetted against a winter sunset, the smell of wood smoke, ''Gymnopedie No. 3,'' the moon's path on water, the end of the party.

W h a t ’s k e e p i n g m e a w a k e a t n i g h t : Looking forward to:

Spending an extra hour in bed Trying my hand at collages Learning to make Bolognese sauce Using my new Roku and my birthday watercolors Taking another skillshare.com class I am jealous of:

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The Faraway Nearby Why no sexy bike helmets? Constantly deleting the Portuguese manual from my Kindle How to get more Kindle Crack gift cards Piper’s fate on Orange Is the New Black Why are hummingbirds so vicious? Craving for gluten-full pasta Launching the new skirt! website What if a snake gets in my house? Did I take my antidepressant today?!

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I’ve been sucked in by Nowness.com, which features videos and photos on food, fashion, culture, beauty, music and more. I’ve found things like a short interview with one of my heroes, Peter Beard, and American Autumn, a parody of a Woody Allen movie acted by elementary school kids. It’s defies easy description but keeps you coming back for more.

I’ve been fascinated lately with kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of ﬁxing cracks in pottery with gold lacquer and regarding the resulting piece as more beautiful for having been broken. I’ve always thought of my surgery scars as badges of courage, so why not the life scars left behind that no one can see? Filling in the pain with rivers of gold.

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