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What’s Cooking in the Catskills?

07/30/2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon

I am just back from my glorious sojourn in England, but since this jet setter doesn’t like to put down roots for too long, I zipped up to New York’s Catskills Mountains for a weekend of bosky bliss. I have an 1840s-era schoolhouse tucked away in a vest pocket-sized town high in the hills, and, when not gardening wildly, I love nothing more than getting out and exploring.

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Bye-bye, London

07/27/2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon

Dear readers, my trip across the pond has drawn to an end, and I am headed back to our fair shores refreshed, renewed and reinvigorated. I lived in England as a child, so my frequent jaunts to Britannia return me to my jeunesse dorée and work wonders for the system when New York’s daily grind gets me down.

As I review my notes from the past ten days, here are some further highlights from a terrific trip:

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Floral Fantasia

07/20/2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon

As my devoted blog-o-philes know, nothing gets me more hot and bothered than a good garden. Better yet, a good garden show where they exhibit all sorts of new plants and whip up vignettes with blooms scattered hither and yon.

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Chatsworth Charm

07/17/2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon

I have long been semi-obsessed with Chatsworth, the ancestral home of the Dukes of Devonshire located smack in the heart of Derbyshire’s Peaks District. Why, you might ask?

I think my obsession is two-fold:

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Anglo Mania

07/13/2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon

Oh, how I adore London . . .

The past few days have been super spiffy: From a gorgeous picnic on the grass in the confines of Queen Mary’s gated garden within Regent’s Park (It’s amazing what you can purchase for ten pounds at Marks & Spencer’s food hall—why don’t American department stores offer glorious crab salad and Sauvignon Blanc in mid-size bottles for picnics?) to an amazing dinner at the very luxe Ritz hotel (the last time I dined here I sat just across from Maggie Thatcher, and I nearly fell into her lap on my way back from the loo).

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Market Watch

07/10/2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon

On my frequent visits across the pond (that’s London, folks), I like to pack it in and try out—and see—as much as possible. Hence, I usually stay in a neighborhood that I haven’t explored, or at least one I haven’t visited in a while. This go-around, I decided to check out East London, a neighborhood that I spent quite a bit of time in seven years ago.

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When in London . . .

07/06/2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon

Dearest readers:

I am off to London for ten glorious days, so get ready for some inside dirt on my most favorite city. From a visit to the Sunday morning Columbia Road Flower Market to the Baroque exhibit at the Victoria & Albert to an evening under the stars at Regent Park whilst watching The Importance of Being Earnest al fresco, my Brit-wit dance card is full, full, full. And you will be able to get in on the action.

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Meet Me in Minneapolis

07/03/2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon

Every month I spend a few days in Minneapolis working with the team at Delta Sky magazine, and my short-break sojourns in Minnesota have allowed me to explore this amazing city. I am a longtime New Yorker, so for me to confess my love for a Midwestern fly-over city might be thought of as sacrilege. Well, forget what Anna Wintour of Vogue might say about “small houses,” I think that Minneapolis sort of rocks.

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Bienvenue a Bridgeport

06/26/2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon

Bridgeport, Conn., was always one of those cities that I zipped through while traveling on I-95 en route from New York City to Boston, or perhaps point further north. It never seemed worth stopping in for a visit; it seemed like a city built too close to the highway and languishing somewhat from economic hard times.

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Highbrow Hijinks

06/22/2009 by Jason Oliver Nixon

Yesterday I had a quintessential New York afternoon. It was one of those glorious Gotham days when the weather was idyllic (we have had endless rain so far this summer, so this brief respite of soleil was much needed), and everyone was out and about to enjoy the blue sky and throw on some of-the-moment, open-toe shoes. I found myself in the Meatpacking District downtown sitting atop the just-opened High Line, the fabulous elevated park that extends north from the MPD and that once carried freight trains.

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About Jason Oliver Nixon

Jason Oliver Nixon

Global Lifestyle Editor Jason Oliver Nixon is always on the prowl for the latest and greatest finds, whether it’s ferreting out the grooviest new restaurant in Paris or unearthing a home design store in Dubai. "I am attracted by color and energy, passion and verve," says Nixon. "Who wants to be beige and boring?" The former Editor in Chief of Gotham, Hamptons, and Los Angeles Confidential magazines, Nixon makes frequent appearances on television as a style authority. A resident of Brooklyn, New York, Nixon escapes to London whenever possible, where he can be found happily ensconced at Fortnum & Mason perusing new-fangled jams.

To contact Jason Oliver Nixon with your comments, questions and blog suggestions, email him at jasnixon@gmail.com. Or, post your comment on his blog!

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