Archive for the ‘Julia Reed’ Category
Summer Weekends
Julia Reed July 22nd, 2010One of my very favorite cookbook authors is the much-loved Lee Bailey, who died in 2003 at 76. Bailey wrote 18 books on food and entertaining, had an extraordinarily chic tabletop boutique in Manhattan’s Henri Bendel (when it was still on 57th Street and very, very cool), and was a sort of lifestyle guru before [...]
Read MoreThe Songs of Summer
Julia Reed July 8th, 2010Julia Reed ruminates on the songs–and memories–of lost summers.
Read MoreJulia Reed May 13th, 2010
Julia Reed looks back on some pleasant, and not so pleasant, walks down the aisle.
Read MoreParty Girl
Julia Reed March 19th, 2010My New Orleans neighborhood abuts the Irish Channel, which means my streets are still littered with green beads and wilted cabbages from the St. Patrick’s Day parade last weekend, and with several hundred “to-go” cups from the block parties on Wednesday. Like most occasions that demand revelry, St. Patrick’s Day is a big deal here. [...]
Read MoreAlexander the Great
Julia Reed February 18th, 2010Julia Reed looks back on the genius and showmanship of the great Alexander McQueen.
Read MoreA Fan’s Notes
Julia Reed February 6th, 2010Julia Reed talks about her newfound fandom and what she’ll be watching for during fashion week.
Read MoreJulia Reed January 7th, 2010
Julia Reed talks about The Thin Man, iPods, second acts, and new decades.
Read MoreFlying The Holiday Flag
Julia Reed November 18th, 2009In December 2001, less than two months after 9/11, The New York Times Magazine asked me to write a holiday food column. I’m pretty sure my editors thought they were going to get instructions for a somber celebration that befitted the mood of the times. What they got was a very different kind of how-to [...]
Read MoreA Designer Education
Julia Reed October 22nd, 2009Until I married my husband and we bought our house in the Garden District of New Orleans, I lived a fairly peripatetic life, moving through Washington, New York, the French Quarter, even Winter Park, Florida. Along the way, I collected a lot of things and probably offloaded even more (a parrot green parson’s table, my [...]
Read MoreThe Ultimate Taigan
Julia Reed October 7th, 2009My first ever paying job (not counting numerous lemonade stands and a brief fifth-grade career as a holiday cake baker) was during the summer of my 13th year, in a department store in my hometown in the Mississippi Delta. In those days, Greenville was a thriving port and a place of extraordinary sophistication, and the [...]
Read MoreElusive Find: Oyster Roll
