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From Premium Booze to Fresh-Cut Flowers, These Luxury Services Still Deliver to Get You Through Quarantine - Robb Report

In the Hudson Valley, Blue Hill at Stone Barns has swapped its usual jacket-and-tie $278-a-head set menu for a selection of build-your-own hotpot kits, at $150 per person (pick-up only), plus optional botanical cocktails and a sommelier selection. Other Michelin-starred options include omakase and sake from Sushi Yasuda, and a gourmet Korean barbeque experience in your own home, courtesy of Cote NYC, which will deliver an “ultimate steak feast” to your door and advise on the finer points of home grilling technique.Off the Michelin trail, New York’s hottest no-reservation neighborhood favorites, such as Le French Diner on the Lower East Side, and Lucali’s pizza in Brooklyn—where it’s usually the work of several hours to get a table—are now providing exquisite meals to go.For those working towards their own domestic Michelin experience, take advantage of the fact that, with many restaurants closed, gourmet wholesalers are now moving into home delivery. You can take delivery of epicurean ingredients from Foods in Season and “eat well from home kits” from New York’s most illustrious butcher, Debragga, while specialist restaurant supplier Regalis Foods is now selling 80 percent of its online portfolio to home consumers at wholesale prices.Drinks Courtesy of Adam Jaime/Unsplash Many restaurants depend on wine sales for profitability, so consider splashing out on a bottle as part of your order, or, if your decision-making capacity has is not what it once was, order “wine roulette” from Air Champagne Parlor in New York, and let them do the thinking. Dante, regularly voted the world’s best bar, will also deliver its famous negroni cocktails in 8 oz bottles, while Brooklyn’s Sauvage Wines now includes a roll of toilet paper with each order.If yo... https://robbreport.com/lifestyle/news/from-premium-spirits-to-fresh-flowers-these-services-still-deliver-2910286/

Fairwinds in Blue Hill named best florist shop in Maine | Community ... - The Weekly Packet

Schneider has owned Fairwinds for the last 10 years; however, her first experience with the floral business came in 1998, when she moved away from Blue Hill to the warmer climate of Florida.“I left Maine in a rush after the ice storm of ’98, went to Florida and got a job at a flower shop,” said Schneider. “I quite liked it, but then I went on to college and whatnot.”After college Schneider came back to Blue Hill in 2004, at which time the owners of Fairwinds were looking for someone to manage the shop. Schneider jumped at the opportunity and went on to purchase the business a year later.The business has allowed Schneider to show off her creativity, as each arrangement is carefully visualized and planned before construction.“I identify as an artist first, which is great in this line of work,” said Schneider. “Owning the business though, I know I also have to look at it from a budgeting perspective. How much the arrangement costs sort of dictates the flowers we use, what it will look like, that sort of thing.”Her artistic sense prompted her decision to start the process of becoming certified with the American Institute of Floral Designers, which required her to first enroll as a candidate to participate in testing of skills and knowledge in the field. Once accepted, Schneider reviewed for the evaluation, which took her to Denver for testing in 2015. She, along with 67 other florists from around the world passed the evaluations and were inducted during the California ceremony.“The induction was pretty cool,” said Schneider. “It was really formal, on stage, lots of speeches. Everybody gets really dolled up. They’re a really established organization.”In addition to the florist shop, Schneider also has a substantial flower growing operation on her property in Orland, which allows her to have a constant variety of flowers in the shop. The benefit of having those flowers available on the farm is that the operation includes a refrigeration process, which allows Schneider to harvest whenever she wants to.“I a... http://weeklypacket.com/news/2016/jul/28/fairwinds-in-blue-hill-named-best-florist-shop-in/

A Floral Designer's Dream Wedding in South Africa - Vogue.com

Tarrytown, where he had booked us into the best room in a fancy hotel. He had secretly packed an overnight bag for me with a pretty dress and then spoiled me by taking me to Blue Hill Stone Barns for an exquisite dinner—a reservation he had made two months in advance! The next morning we drove to Washington, D.C. to stare at the cherry blossoms, which were in peak bloom that day. It was all very romantic, dreamy bliss.”Latisha knew she wanted a midsummer wedding in South Africa. “I had a feeling we would get a lot of friends traveling from the States because February is generally when people want to escape the East Coast cold the most,” says Latisha. She also didn’t want what she refers to as a “wasteful wedding.” “So much of what I do in my freelance design life is very transient and disposable,” she admits. “As much as I love working with the lavish, luxe, and elaborate designs, I am more of a down-to-earth girl. Luke and I wanted to keep things simple and true to who we are. I didn’t feel the need to be surrounded with multitudes of lavish floral arrangements because that aspect of my life is fulfilled. I am also very aware of the carbon footprint of imported flowers and didn’t want to use anything imported as a result.”They opted to keep things very green, local, and simple. “Our goal was to create a magical garden wedding. It was intended to be very Cape Dutch meets the Dutch Masters: rustic elegance with a touch of bohemian, more greens than flowers, still life landscapes rather than arrangements alone.” Latisha’s florist and friend, Marissa from Opus, executed everything exactly as the bride envisioned it. “All my floral designer friends who flew in from Brooklyn could relax,” Latisha says. “My perfect bouquet was an incredible gift from my most talented, dear friend Ariel Dearie of Ariel Dearie Flowers. I felt so moved and blessed when she delivered it.”The couple wanted to get married outside under the trees somewhere remote and rustic but with real South African history, and Hawksmoor House ended up being the perfect choice. Thirty guests spent the weekend there with the bride and groom. “It was an intimate celebration where our families were able to relax and spend time getting to know each other in a beautiful space,” sa... http://www.vogue.com/13438476/latisha-duarte-luke-mccoubrey-wedding-south-africa/

Warm December brings flowers to Concord - Wicked Local

White clover and red clover plants were flowering on Christmas below the bathhouse at Walden Pond.The Blue Hill Observatory reported that both Dec. 24 and 25 set records for daily high temperatures. The Dec. 24 temperature of 67 degrees was 6 degrees higher than the previous record of 61 degrees, and the temperature on Christmas day reached 64 degrees, beating the old record of 62 degrees. These record temperatures are around 30 degrees warmer than normal for this time of year. The nighttime low temperatures also broke records as the warmest nights for these dates. Once the calculations are completed, this December will likely be the warmest December since records first started in 1885.People responded to the warm temperatures as well. On Christmas evening, Carol Haines went caroling at Monument Square as part of a longtime family tradition and for the first time did not wear a coat. On Christmas day, crowds of people walked around Walden Pond, some even in shorts and light shirts. A few people took advantage of the warm weather to go swimming.The warm December weather drew out insects. Many record December observations of butterflies were reported around Massachusetts such as American Ladies in Nahant and Red Admirals at Plum Island. Shelly Henderson of neighboring Lexington noticed flying mosquitoes, which are normally killed by frosts in November.A few migrant bird species lingered into late December, including three killdeer in Concord and a Baltimore oriole in Lincoln. Northern shovelers were still swimming on the open water at Great Meadows and two marsh wrens were active in the bordering vegetation.Other surprising animal activities for Christmas included squirrels running around excitedly as if they were playing tag. At two wetland spots in Concord, Simon Perkins at the Bedford Levels and Martha Swope in Conantum heard spring peepers calling, as if to ask their neighbors, “What’s with this warm weather?”After our astonishingly warm week of Christmas and all the activity it brought with it, the New England winter finally arrived. A snowstorm on Dec. 29 deposited an inch of heavy slush on the landscape, and a cold night then froze the slush to the ground. So long, warm Christmas; so long, flowers, shoots, insects, and peepers—we’ll see you again in the spring!Richard B. Primack is a professor of biology at Boston University and the author of the book “Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods.” For the past 14 years, Primack, along with his students an... http://concord.wickedlocal.com/article/20160108/NEWS/160107661

Stuck inside? Tips for indoor gardening to bring green to your space while quarantined - USA TODAY

Grow vegetable scrapsKids might like this one: Many leafy vegetables such as romaine lettuce and bok choy will regrow from the parts you don't eat. Just cut off 1-2 inches at the base, put it aside (cut side up) in a bowl or shallow saucer filled with about a ½ inch of water. Place it in a sunny spot and watch the roots start to grow, then transplant it into soil in a pot.4. Grow a vegetable gardenIf you're feeling a yen for tomatoes and you've got a sunny patio or balcony, self-watering growing containers, such as City Jungle from Bio Green, make it easy to grow two full-sized tomato plants or whatever vegetables and herbs you choose. The built-in water reservoir automatically keeps plants watered.5. Grow flowering plantsMany flowering plants are easy to grow, says Schultz. African violets thrive in bright, indirect sunlight. Abutilon "Little Sunshine" plants from Logees.com is a good choice for a sunny windowsill and they're pretty, he says: Sunshine-yellow flowers with a blush of morning-orange on the inner petals bloom year-round.6. Add new houseplantsGreening up one's home is increasingly popular among new and experienced gardeners, says Warhurst, but you need to analyze the environmental conditions of your abode. Do you have enough sunlight?"We can easily manage (air, water and nutrients) but sun often becomes the limiting factor," Warhurst says. "Accurately defining the lighting conditions in your home and the sun requirements of the plants you choose can be the key to success."Grow lights, which offer the full spectrum of light plants need, can help if your home has low-light conditions. LED lights are very efficient, long-lasting and do not use hazardous glass or chemicals, Warhurst says. "Place the grow lights close to the plants and leave them on for 12 to 16 hours per day."Research what kind of light your houseplants need: For instance, he says, cacti, succulents and Ficus require three to four hours of direct sun each day, "bright enough to cast a shadow and to read a newspaper," Warhurst says. Low, indirect light is best for plants such as pothos and Chinese evergreens."These areas may be further away from a window or where sunl... https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2020/03/31/coronavirus-quarantine-tips-garden-indoors-while-stuck-inside/2928016001/

Lee Phillip Bell, who channeled her journalism into soap operas, dies at 91 - The Washington Post

I moved from being her temporary replacement into hosting my own talk show,” Mrs. Bell later said. “I must thank Lucky for my big break.”In 1954, she married William Bell. They remained in Chicago until launching “The Bold and the Beautiful” on the West Coast, where they established what the Los Angeles Times dubbed “the first family of soaps.”Their son William James Bell is president of the family production company and married to Maria Arena Bell, former head writer and executive producer of “The Young and the Restless”; another son, Bradley Phillip Bell, is executive producer and head writer of “The Bold and the Beautiful”; and their daughter, Lauralee Bell Martin, is an actress who has appeared on “The Young and the Restless” and “The Bold and the Beautiful.” In addition to her three children, Mrs. Bell is survived by a brother and eight grandchildren. Her husband died in 2005 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease, and Mrs. Bell later championed research into the illness. As she had with so many other health and social issues, she said she wanted to incorporate ­Alzheimer’s disease into one of her soaps. That proved a difficult task for a format that thrives on surpri... https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/lee-phillip-bell-who-channeled-her-journalism-into-soap-operas-dies-at-91/2020/02/27/a5d03dd8-5974-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html

Obituary: Charlotte G. Poulin - Lewiston Sun Journal

She was born Oct. 7, 1938 in Lewiston, the daughter of Carlton Faunce and Fanny (Saunders) Greenleaf.She graduated from Lewiston High School, class of 1956, where she remained an active member of her class reunion committee. She furthered her education at Mount Ida Junior College in Newton, Mass., Doris Remis’ School of Floral Design in New York, and Henry I. Simmons School of Floral Design in Boston alongside her sister Mary. She worked in the family business of Saunders Florist for many years and was a participating floral designer at design schools in both Maine, and at the Boston Flower Exchange.As a teenager, under the tutelage of Mrs. Thurston, she concentrated her love of horses in the competitive show ring and won the Maine State Equitation Championship, among many other awards. She enjoyed her summers at the family cottage on Orr’s Island, especially the boating trips with her brother Abbott. In her later years she met the love of her life and forever friend, Albert Poulin. Together they lived a fulfilling life on the farm where they tended to her greenhouse, her “critters,” and decorated for every season. She will be fondly remembered for her beautiful holiday decorations, her delicious home cooked meals, and her fun-loving spirit.Charlotte... https://www.sunjournal.com/2020/02/06/obituarycharlotte-g-poulin/

A Family Tradition: Berkeley Floral Shop Celebrates 45 Years - Berkeley, NJ Patch

BERKELEY, NJ — Stacey Cofka's parents opened three flower shops on the Jersey Shore. Since they sold two shops and retired in 2004, A Blossom Shop Florist on Route 9 has remained a family operation. A Blossom Shop Florist opened in 1975 and has been celebrating its 45th anniversary throughout 2020. Cofka credits the local customers for sustaining the business. "It's a central location for covering a lot of the shore area, and the people are great," she told Patch. "Everyone's pretty much down to earth in this area. A lot of our customers, they're just fabulous. They come in, they're like family." Cofka worked in marketing for 12 years with Atlantic City casinos. Sixteen years ago, her parents — Paul and Cathy Mulhern — retired. They had sold their other shops in Sea Girt and Howell. Their daughter took the opportunity to buy the Bayville shop from her parents. "It just got overwhelming with the politics," she said of working for casinos. "I just said, 'Why am I doing this for everybody else when I can do it myself and apply a lot of the marketing that I learned through the casinos into my own business?'" Since then, A Blossom Shop Florist has earned seve... https://patch.com/new-jersey/berkeley-nj/family-tradition-berkeley-floral-shop-celebrates-45-years