By Heather Buchanan
Greetings at the third annual Harvest East End Food and Wine Classic went something like this:
“Orlmmm, yermm, hold on a sec and let me get a napkin.”  With so many delectable edibles and fine wines, it was literally hard to get a word in edgewise. Organized by Merliance and the Long Island Wine Council and presented by Wine Spectator, Harvest East End was the epicurean destination, held this year at the regal Hampton Classic show grounds.

Attention literary snow birds: for those of you heading to Palm Beach you can experience two of our favorite things – warm weather and amazing authors.  In its eighth year the Author Breakfast Series at the Brazilian Court Hotel & Beach Club kicks off on Friday Jan 20th and runs through March.  You’ll get to interact with wonderful authors many whom have Hampton ties as well such as Nelson DeMille and Ivana Lowell whose amazing memoir “Why Not Say What Happened?” includes …

In the category of You Can’t Make This **** Up:
A sales clerk at a designer East Hampton boutique had wayyyy too many mojitos at lunch and stole not only some pricey garments but also all the cash in the register (do people actually still buy things with cash?)  He went on the lam and was chased on foot by police.  After the officer fell the criminal had the great idea to duck into a high end hair salon.

By Holly Buchanan
 I have found my new favorite sport – stand-up paddleboarding.   The only thing better than doing stand-up paddleboarding in the Hamptons is doing stand-up paddleboarding with Paddle Diva. 
 These are my people.
 
Paddle Diva was founded by Gina Bradley in the summer of 2009.  Gina felt women were completely underserved in the Stand-Up Paddleboarding (SUP) market.  She knew this was an activity that was going to explode with women.  Thus Paddle Diva was born.