Ursula LeCoeur is busy finishing up the latest novel in the Love in New Orleans Series. In A Race to the Altar, heroine Kate Massett takes up the latest 1890s craze – bicycle racing. She becomes so adept at the sport, she beats the man she hopes to marry. Will he accept his defeat by a […]
A coffee cake so good, you’ll think you’ve died and gone to heaven “ ‘It was kind of Vespasian Colville to escort you home yesterday,’ her mother said as she passed Carine a slice of Bishop’s Bread, a light cinnamon coffee cake and one of Betsy’s specialties. ‘But I wonder how proper it was […]
This time of year, this soup is a delightful indulgence, which carries all the tastes and smells of a summer garden. My family’s recipe for the cold soup was lost a long time ago, but I’ve adapted a modern one to meet my needs. Some people strain their soup, but I think that would puree […]
Pick up the fall issue of any fashion magazine and you’ll see photos and screaming headlines that the choker necklace is back. The stylish will don chokers, just like those worn for centuries by women from Egypt to Renaissance Italy to England and America. It’s one of those fashions that comes and goes, […]
Pick up any Regency romance set in London and the principal characters invariably take a drive or ride along Rotten Row in Hyde Park at the fashionable hour to see and be seen. I, too, made my way to the venerable bridle path on a late afternoon at the end of June. One solitary horseman […]
