Ken Hoyt

Some strong arguments for throwing a few seeds in the ground at your home, whether you have a field or a few pots.

Ready to party Southern-style? Check out Ken’s upcoming cooking class at In Good Taste. And definitely bookmark this recipe for Sweet Potato Salad (it gets rave reviews!). Ken stopped by AM Northwest to show Helen Raptis how to make that recipe.

Time to paint? The Big Red Wall is an attractive option for homeowners seeking drama.

“Water,” W.C. Fields famously said,”Never touch the stuff. Fish fornicate in it you know.” The current discussion about water has splattered into many sub-topics.

Superheroes aren’t just influencing cereal choices. The Metropolitan Museum of Art shows us how fashion gathers ideas from caped crusaders.

The always fascinating Metropolitan Museum of Art has never been at a loss for exhibitions to draw in the normally art averse. Who needs to study brush strokes when there are actual temples from antiquity and entire rooms from stately homes?

The Costume Institute (originally curated by the fabulous Diana Vreeland) has stepped out of it’s usual role of historic investigation with Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy * show set to run through this summer.

It is much more than a sampling of all things spandex. The show details the effect these larger-than-life characters have on fashion from the athletic field to the runway.

The always entertaining (and most often correct) Cathy Horyn of the New York Times writes about how we all, through fashion, share the superhero skill of transformation, accompanied by a terrific slide show.

* Not going to make it to NYC? Check out the terrific online show catalog at the bottom of this page.

Single use water bottles are an expensive delivery system for a relatively generic product. And they’re expensive on the back end, because few of them actually get recycled.

Even some of the reusable bottles, although a greener solution, may have a sickening side effect.

In The New York Times article, Perceptions: Go Ahead, Put the Water Bottle Down, Nicholas Bakalar finds that there is little evidence to support the widely held belief that we need 8 glasses of water a day.

Actually if you’re really thirsty, all of the time maybe you should consult your doctor.

The red wall (despite my dire predictions) refuses to die. This piece (part of the routinely well-written Room to Improve column in The New York Times) gathers the rouge-tinted opinions of a cross-sampling of talented designers… it’s worth the read before you make the (hard-to-paint-over) commitment…

My friend Helen Raptis at AM Northwest helped me whip together a batch of delicious Sweet Potato Salad. Check out the video here.