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I am a big fan of keeping life simple. But I am also very bad at it. Take Chloe’s bake sale for example. Last year she was determined to have a pop-up snack stand in the first week of the holidays, to raise money for Open Airways and the SPCA. Every...

The first job that Samuele Sebastiani had in his new country was hauling stones in a horse-drawn cart from Sonoma to San Francisco, using a ferry to cross the bridgeless bay. He saved his money and in 1904 made his first 500 gallon batch of wine. He...

The winter tourism slump came as a shock to The Reefs’ executive chef Douglas Sisk. Like magic, dinner guests disappeared. “I arrived in May 2014 and we’d been making about 600 meals daily for hotel guests plus we were catering for lots of events,”...

A breakfast programme for schoolchildren that served almost 50,000 meals this year is going on summer break tomorrow with the close of the academic year. The initiative, which grew by three more schools this year to eight, is already courting volunte...

There are a lot of roles within parenting. Above all, we are chief distributors of love and affection and I am keeping my fingers crossed (permanently) that if we get that bit right, then the other things don’t matter quite so much. If my kids grow ...

Two local chefs are cooking up a storm for America’s Cup defending champions Oracle Team USA. Matthew Pridham and Benjamin Bernardo are now working at the team’s base and for Mr Bernardo the job is “proof that hard work pays off”. “If you’re Bermudi...

I first met Joe and his wife at their Napa Valley home back in 1978, when my new bride and I sat around their kitchen table, tasted his wines, and found out why this valley was destined for glory. Some years later they were in Bermuda and, as I care...

Naughty Nana has landed back in Bermuda and the girls couldn’t be more delighted. She does have a day job (where she is not naughty at all, I should add) but the after-work antics have already begun. So far we are knee-deep in metallic tattoos and e...

Celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson spends a lot of his time travelling around the world. But that doesn’t stop him from eating fresh, healthy meals and getting in exercise when he can. The 45-year-old admitted that one of his favourite activities whi...

If you are in the Burgundy region of France you may be standing on the 47th latitude north, follow this to the far west and you will be very close to the vineyards of Oregon. If you journey south you will find that Central Otago, in the South Island...

Back from England, where I spent an amazing week doing some extra training and catching up with family. I stayed with my stepsister, who is a juicing fanatic, so I woke up to adventurous combinations almost every morning. It’s so easy to be healthy ...

The best thing about wine for Mat Macdonald, is the thrill of the hunt. As the owner of Two Rock Wines, part of his job is scouring the globe for hidden treasures. The scary part is once the bottles reach Bermuda — wine can be temperamental after tra...