10/21/2026
"I love to entertain, but I also love a chill weekend, and the best evenings in Sagaponack manage to be both. For me, that means one long table on the lawn with little colored glass vases I’ve picked up from the flower district over the years, filled with ferns from the woods, tons of votives, and plates from Il Buco Vita in Amagansett.
For this dinner, we gathered the family and friends who couldn’t make it to my son’s wedding in Lisbon and turned the evening into a friendly cooking competition. Guests were paired up, there were awards for the top tastes, and since there were to be no losers, the runners-up went home with Keith McNally’s I Regret Almost Everything.
Then, as always, there was the after-dinner walk my father insisted on, before dessert and charades."
“En Plein Air," October issue of Cottages & Gardens. Many thanks to Clinton Smith Studio for a wonderful conversation and this story!
