Coastal Grand-Mother's Day

Gather around the dinner table with me. Plus, a Mother's Day gift guide.

The fourth-ever issue of this newsletter was called “Nancy Meyer’s Kitchen”. If you know me, you’re aware this “Coastal Grandmother” aesthetic — one defined by Nancy Meyers movies’ well-appointed kitchens, Ina Garten’s fabulous dinners, cashmere, linen, and expensive beachfront property — is long-embodied in my life. Since college, actually, when I attempted to decorate my dumpy Gainesville, Florida townhouse with Tiffany blue wall paint and ginger jars from HomeGoods.

We even had a supper club, where my then-boyfriend, our friends, and I would spend all day scouring the local farmer’s market and a hippie grocer called Ward’s, then bring back our bounty to fire up the rickety stove and concoct the food from whatever cookbook we were currently obsessed with.

I’m sure I have a picture of those days somewhere.

*scurries around*