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A comforting, simple soup makes for the perfect fall Sunday supper. INGREDIENTS: 3 leeks, washed carefully to remove all dirt and grit, white, light green, and yellow portions sliced to make 4 cups 2 heads of cauliflower, washed well, broken into tiny florets to make 4 cups 2 cups milk 4 cups chicken stock (preferably

If there is one word to describe how co-owners Hillary Rikower and Allison Schachter feel since opening their modern bakery experience in Highland Park, it is grateful. For the first few days, Sugarcoated sold out within two hours. “Never in a million years did we think we would end up in a space like this

“Let me show you the top of my world.” It is a fine, late summer day and vintner Frédérique Vaquer, a woman with a smile so radiant one can’t help but beam in return, leads me to a vine-covered hilltop in Roussillon, the Spain-hugging region in Southern France that was once part of Catalonia (and

A recent trip to the Dalmatian Coast proved the veracity of all the tales I have heard of Croatia’s beauty. This haven at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe has everything – history, culture, glorious terrain, delicious local wines, a range of sea colors from pistachio to cobalt to azure, and more than 1,000