By Lois Burpee
Eight years of boarding school and college menus, and four years of stretching the dollar-a-day budget, while sharing an apartment with a sister or friend in the depression years, were a culinary vacuum, with one exception. While at Wellesley College, I was introduced to Chinese food. A group of students who had lived [...]
In the middle of writing a non-fiction book on the history of the world’s religions, I despair about finishing before it’s too late. Writing a book requires much more careful thought than I imagined. As much heat as light: preparation, outline, sources, sentence and paragraph structure, etc. It’s true that a plan is crucial. Also, [...]
By Lois Burpee
“How did you, the wife of David Burpee, become interested in vegetables?” is a question frequently asked me—as though I had become a traitor to my husband and his passion for flowers. I am expected to be a flower expert, especially of marigolds, not vegetables. “I just did” is hardly a satisfactory answer. [...]
Guest Blog—William Rein
On the first day of the APGA “Sideways Santa Barbara Tour” in June, our group visited three more or less “public” gardens. We ended on Saturday evening with a leisurely dinner on the terrace of Madame Ganna Walska’s home at Lotusland. Then we boarded the bus and headed south along the coast to [...]
I served as President of The American Horticultural Society for four years, 1990 to 1993. For the first half of its existence the AHS headquartered in a series of offices in DC, including a second floor walk up over a Chinese restaurant. When I joined in 1989, it occupied River Farm, a spectacular 27-acre estate [...]
As house prices and new construction fall, the homebuyer has not only more choices, but tougher economic decisions to make due to tighter credit. Lenders are narrowing their focus on high-worth clients. Middle class buyers face declining wages, workforce reductions and a pre-recession economy of $4.00/gallon gas and climbing food prices. If they’re vacating a [...]
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