New Yorks 50 Best Places for Breakfast and Brunch or Frugal Luxuries by the Seasons

New York's 50 Best Places for Breakfast and Brunch (City & Company Guide Series)

Author: Courtney Baron

Everyone agrees: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. New York, the restaurant capital of the world, offers a cornucopia of options, from four-star dining to the corner coffee cart. Author Courtney Baron starts with a primer on the fundamental differences between breakfast and brunch, and then lists her palate-approved picks for the city's 25 best places for each.

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Frugal Luxuries by the Seasons: Celebrate the Holidays with Elegance and Simplicity--on Any Income

Author: Tracey McBrid

All year-round, create lush beauty and quiet graces for home and family (without breaking your budget)

Tracey McBride's first book, Frugal Luxuries, elevated frugal but elegant living to an art form. Now in this companion volume she shares all new ways to embellish cherished holidays and the timeless rhythms of the seasons. Here she shows how to use joined efforts, loving hands, and exciting ideas to create gracious touches and sumptuous celebrations, delicious meals and wonderful seasonal treats. Learn how you can enrich your home with timeless pleasures and lighten the spirits of those you hold most dear—without exhausting your bank account. Enjoy:

Emblems of spring: aromatic Irish linen sachets, warm scones drenched in jam and butter...and mysterious bunny tracks you can make to delight your children

Enchanted summers: floral wreaths as party favors, an Italian feast with homemade pasta...and bountiful gifts from the garden

Autumnal offerings: scented cinnamon pinecones as fire starters, fresh challah for Rosh Hashana...and a house warmed with fall bouquets and cozy paisley throws

Winter wonders: mood-enhancing music, illuminating with lights, inside and out...and a Christmas gift pantry—begun in January—to create stress-free giving
Plus an abundance of seasonal blessings, imaginative uses for yard-sale treasures, an appreciation of things old and marvelous...and creation of a life of beauty and simplicity.