Just a few of my favorite things. What are yours?

MOVIES:

Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, The Godfather, Chinatown, Out of Africa, Schindler’s List, Titanic, Dances with Wolves, Driving Miss Daisy, The English Patient, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Sting, My Fair Lady, Barbie, Brokeback Mountain, Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall.

BOOKS:

To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Lessons in Chemistry, Up Island, Little Women, The Great Gatsby, Robin Hood, The Nightingale, The Women, Atonement, The Book Thief, The Kite Runner, The Alchemist, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, Gone with the Wind. 

PLAYLIST: 

Only Time- Enja

Karma- Taylor Swift

Dance the Music- Dua Lipa

As It Was- Harry Styles

Dreams- Fleetwood Mac

Just the Way You Are- Billy Joel

Passacaglia- piano

Songs from a Secret Garden- piano

Guilty- Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb

Red Red Wine- Neil Diamond

Billie Jean- Michael Jackson

Need You Now- Lady Antebellum

All I Ask of You- Phantom of the Opera

Hallelujah- Rufus Wainwright

Chances Are- Johnny Mathis

Time to Say Goodbye- Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman

Summer Wind- Frank Sinatra

Your Song- Elton John

He Thinks He’ll Keep Her- Mary Chapin Carpenter

Fire and Rain- James Taylor

Long Long Time- Linda Ronstadt

FOOD:

Lobster roll, Caesar salad, chicken saltimbocca, trout meuniere almondine, seafood gumbo, crab cakes, eggs benedict, curried chicken salad, chicken pot pie, pasta all carbonara, caprese salad, beurre blanc sauce, custard, pommes frites, rigatoni all amatriciana, club sandwich, grilled salmon or halibut.

SPECIAL PLACES:

The Holidays in NYC

Sunset on a Rooftop in San Miguel de Allende

Walking Coopers Beach in Southampton

Sitting in a café in Paris

Walking Juarez Park in Centro, San Miguel de Allende

Tasting Rosé wines in Provence

Hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains, N.C.

Gin & Tonic at the Carousel Bar- Monteleone Hotel, New Orleans

Michelin Dinner in Rome

A play on Broadway, NYC

Having a martini at the bar in Bemelmans in the Carlyle Hotel, NYC

London, Paris, Rome, New Orleans, NYC, Palm Beach, Nantucket, Assisi, Italy

My classroom at NYU

RESTAURANTS:

Joe Allen- NYC

Bar Centrale- NYC

Blue Ridge Grill- Atlanta

Houston’s- Atlanta

Munay- San Miguel

Altar- San Miguel

Commander’s Palace- New Orleans

Buccan, Palm Beach

Brick Tops, Palm Beach

ENTERTAINMENT:

White Lotus, Hacks, Emily in Paris, Drops of God, The Forsytes,  My Brilliant Friend, Slow Horses, Palm Royale, Queen Charlotte, Adolescence, Baby Reindeer, Bad Sisters, The Morning Show, Virgin River, Sullivan’s Crossing, Sweet Magnolias, Queen’s Gambit.

SEASON OF THE YEAR: Fall

TIME OF THE DAY: Sunset at a beach, in the mountains, or on a rooftop

SPIRITS & WINE:

Tanqueray & Tonic, Gin martini with olives, Chardonnay, French Rose, Champagne.

I’d love to learn your favorites! Contact me.