The ‘Twice Baked Twins’ offer dessert gifts
Judy Vig and Joy Paoletti — also known as the Twice Baked Twins — share their love of cooking through television appearances, newspaper columns and just whenever they have a chance. They are making it easier to eat, as they do this holiday season with their ForkFulla and 2 Bite Delite Biscotti, which have recently...
Creative gifts for kids from the Glass House design store
The Philip Johnson Glass House Design Store in New Canaan is a source for creative and architectural children’s gifts this gift-giving season. The budding architect can produce early designs using the Tegu’s magnetic building system and Lego’s Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe. Go modern with children’s furniture, including Little Bert, the replica of...
Healthy holidays: A party survival guide
Abiding to a healthy nutritional plan can be challenging, but eating most meals at home makes it more manageable. Buying the right foods, counting calories and cooking your own meals are steadfast strategies to keep pounds at bay. But, what do you do when the busy holiday season fills your social calendar? Being surrounded by...
The season of jolly can lead to holiday blues
With the arrival of the season’s major holidays, including Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah, and New Year’s, there is an unspoken expectation of unlimited cheer, unlimited entertaining and limitless budgets. Family and visitors arrive for quality time together whether you like them or not! Holidays can be wonderful, but we can all agree they are very stressful...
Entrepreneur designs fireside benches
Home is where the hearth is, as the saying goes, and New Canaan retired banker turned entrepreneur Peter Hovey has created new ways to entice us to sit by the fire, bringing family and friends together by designing a line of fireside benches called “Club Fenders,” a name that harks back to the 18th and...
Think twice before giving pets as holiday gifts
Many people consider pets great holiday gifts. But in spite of their popularity as presents, pets do not always make the most appropriate holiday gift. Giving a pet as a present seems like a great idea, but shoppers might want to give it more consideration before giving a gift that is such a considerable responsibility....
New ideas for the Host or Hostess
Entertaining is part of the holiday season when hosts and hostesses open their homes to many friends and family to celebrate a time of giving and togetherness. Gifts for the host and/or hostess can show appreciation to the men and women who go above and beyond. A hostess gift can be as simple or as...
Yes, Jack, there is a Santa Claus
(Writer’s note: With much credit — and apologies! — to newsman Francis P. Church, circa 1897) Last Christmas brought with it the question about Santa, just as it had done three preceding times before. It made the holidays especially bittersweet, as the baby of the family took his place Christmas morn with his older siblings,...
Testing the Toys
Walk into any toy store or department store and you’re apt to see at least one kid “toy testing.” But when it seems to be all about playing rather than purchasing, you may well also spot at least one raised managerial brow, and a “you break it, you buy it” look. When Fairfield residents Howard...
