In my childhood house in Philadelphia, a huge gold-framed painting hung in the dining room, an heirloom from a rich cousin of my father's who had travelled all over the world and died senile in a house stuffed with mementos.
IF SOMETHING SPEAKS TO YOU, LISTEN Not every item has to be an heirloom, a memento of an exotic vacation or a marker of a huge life event.
We started with lots of ice-cold Prosecco and baby Ott Les Domaniers 2008 rose with first courses of vine-ripened heirloom tomatoes with creamy burrata cheese, wild rocket and una racion de jamon serrano, followed by a huge Kistler Hudson 2004 Chardonnay with grilled Maine lobsters and garlic basil lime butter.
My mother brought with her most of her furniture and many pieces of crystals and silver that were family heirlooms; also most of my grandfather's paintings (he was an artist by trade) and two huge sweater-making machines.
The study was huge in scope, studying nearly 400 types of tomatoes, from sweet little cherry tomatoes to big goofy-looking heirlooms, and offers American tomato growers a playbook to make tomatoes great again, so to speak.
Chiang Kaishek; a huge tapestry depicting the White House, Eisenhower, and assorted scenes of his childhood; rain hats, hand warmers, souvenir elephants, family heirlooms and offers of dogs.
Heirloom tomatoes at dusk!
Prep some heirloom beans.
Christopher Michaud, 34, a product strategist at Huge, a digital agency in Brooklyn, and his fiancé sawed in half a South African Krugerrand, a gold coin and a family heirloom, as the raw material.
