Adventures in Everyday Living, Shorelines Thursday, November 22, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving, get ready to shop local over the weekend by consulting the holiday issue of Shore; downtown parties galore in Crown Point, Valparaiso, New Buffalo, Buchanan and South Haven and don't forget the MSI festival of trees.---Pat Colander, Associate Publisher and Editor.

Sip and Savor All September at Sawyer

All September long, Sawyer Garden Center will be hosting wine-tastings every day until the end of the month.

Moe cooks in Michigan City and Italian Day in Sawyer

Cookbook author ("Whatever Happened to Sunday Dinner?") Lisa Caponigri will be at Sawyer Garden Center and Moe Mroueh will be dishing it out at the Taste of Michigan City this weekend ---Pat Colander, Associate Publisher and Editor, Shore Magazine.

Shore magazine's Letter from the Publisher, August/September 2012

Memorial Day weekend for our family—and that is our work and home family—was all about the first 73rd Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid (the sponsors encourage us to say the title exactly that way) held at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Michigan. While I am not a seasoned vete…

Southwest Michigan chef shares her global cooking skills

Growing up in a provincial village north of Hanoi located on the Chinese border, Mylien Tran-Verboom recalls almost every occasion as centered on food.

Shore magazine's Letter from the Publisher, MayJune 2012

Here's what our Shore Facebook fans (2,100+) learned about during the last five days: We celebrated National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day; folks out there are learning to live with Parkinson's disease; the Senate race in Indiana is closer than it's been in decades; Sawyer Garden Center is alr…

A Sumptuous and Sold-Out White Pine Pairing Dinner

Dr. Dave Miller is a man with a passion who began his career as a viticulture research manager at Michigan State University.--- Pat Colander, Associate Publisher and Editor, Shore magazine.

Omelets and Michigan ingredients arrive early this season

An Easter omelet extravaganza starting with a buffet at Ciao Bella, followed by fresh asparagus and tomatoes at Sawyer Garden Center and a cheese-making class at Food Dance in Kalamazoo. ---Pat Colander, Associate Publisher and Editor, Shore magazine.

Microbreweries benchmark the quality of life

Our lives are punctuated with "official" rites of passage. Bridges to somewhere. Game-changers. Exclamation points at the end of biographical sentences. They're shared experiences--communal events like graduations, confirmations, bar/bat mitzvahs, engagements, weddings and births.