My favorite recovering felon, Martha Stewart, was asked her thoughts on our most recent political pin-up girl, Sarah Palin. I wasn't surprised that Martha didn't pull any punches:

With the launch of an already best-selling book "Going Rogue", Sarah Palin is on a full-time media/campaign blitz. She first appeared with Oprah and then Barbara Walters. I am certain there's a long list of additional appearances to follow. Personally, I keep waiting for Tina Fey to appear and do...

Tuesday night President Obama had his first state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Somehow my invite got lost in the mail.

The one I'm really sorry I missed, however, took place in December 1963, just a month after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Lyndon Baines Johnson's first...

Chalk it up to pre-traumatic-Thanksgiving-stress-syndrome, we've been lying awake for nights obsessing about the big O's big state dinner, and our imagination has been working overtime. After all, what better distraction from imminent family holiday dysfunction than fretting about someone else's party and worrying about someone else's attire?

Four...

The Frocktail Party

Fashionphiles flocked to the first annual Frocktail Party on November 12th, eager to bid on a bevy of designer dresses up for auction in support of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). Held in the penthouse loft of the fabulous Burroughes Building, supporters were...

Black Friday is a huge event in American life. Roughly one out of every two American citizens - an estimated 172 million people -- went shopping on Thanksgiving holiday weekend last year. Facing the greatest economic crisis in living memory, shoppers charged gates and malls across the country in 2008....

Tonight President Obama and Mrs. Obama will host their first state dinner at the White House, honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Few events are more glamorous than these; they make Vanity Fair's famous annual Oscar party seems like kindergarten in comparison. A thousand egos must perish on the vine...

I know you've been on tenterhooks waiting for the winners of the contest with the longest name of any contest -- the Third Annual Huffington Post Tell Us What You're Cooking for Thanksgiving This Year that You Didn't Cook Last Year Contest -- and here they are.

I...

For this quintessential American holiday, I asked food and wine luminaries for their Thanksgiving meal plans, thoughts, memories and advice.

RR: WHAT WAS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE THANKSGIVING EXPERIENCE, WHETHER FABULOUS OR FIASCO?

DANA COWIN: (Editor-in-Chief of Food & Wine Magazine)
My most memorable Thanksgiving fiasco took place about 20...

What do you get when you combine luxury travel with carpooling and membership discounts? A new company called Fame Route, a company aimed at execs and celebs who want to travel in style but without busting their bank accounts or pissing off their shareholders. And what do you get when...

When last we left Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton, they had triumphantly self-published Canal House Cooking Volume No. 1 -- and we had adopted it as our never-fail summer cookbook. Now our tans have faded, the leaves have fallen and they're back with Volume No. 2,...

At the recent Moth Ball this week the fabulous men-about-town Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan were on hand to present the annual $5000 MothShop scholarship. The recipient, New York City high school student Terrence Buckner, told a wise beyond his years story on his struggles with coming out in...

Thirty-one years after starting at Bon Appétit as an editorial assistant typing recipes, Barbara Fairchild is being honored by MinOnline as one of 2009's 21 Most Intriguing People in Media and will be celebrating ten years as editor-in-chief in 2010. Recently I sat down with her to discuss Thanksgiving, 2009's...

I just got back from a grueling trip to Europe. After thousands of miles of travel, I have found some great items that have really helped me out. They have kept me safe, sane, healthy, and fresh. All of these items are super easy to use . Here is a...

And so, my friends, it has come to this. As Boyz II Men sang so soulfully, we've come to the end of the road. Or, the runway, I guess. Which means we're about to fall off into the lap of the Malaysian Prime Minister, if Zoolander is to be believed....