Have you heard that Sunset has a massive love affair with Airstreams? If you couldn’t tell from the May cover, well, we do. And while we imagine a world of endless summers and Airstreams for everyone, the reality is we can’t all have a silvery bullet proudly parked in our driveway. Lucky for us, there’s a new crop of quirky Airstream hotels that have all the romance of the open road, with none of the heavy towing.
Goggles for Grilling
One of our recipe testers, Rebecca Parker, recently brought some RSVP onion goggles into work because she has sensitive eyes and knew she was going to be prepping lots of onions. When she found out her day was also going to involve testing Michael Chiarello’s Calabrian chicken al mattone over a potentially smoky wood fire, she had a brilliant idea: wear the goggles for grilling.
Meet the Designer: Daniel Nolan, Flora Grubb Gardens
We’ve rounded up five of the best up-and-coming designers from around the West and asked them to design rooms inspired by iconic Sunset rooms from the 1940s through the ’80s. Their rooms will be on display at the Reimagining the Sunset Home exhibit at our annual Celebration Weekend festival in Menlo Park, California, on June 1-2, 2013. This week we sat down to get to know […]
Champagne Solutions
Last month, we judged our second-annual Sunset International Wine Competition, which involved 49 judges tasting nearly 3,000 wines over the course of two days—and mind-boggling logistics behind the scenes (washing and re-washing 4,000 glasses, pouring just the right wine into each one of them every time … ). But get a group of wine pros like that in one room, and it’s not all serious business; entertainment is bound to break out.
