Interviews

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HomeExchange.com’s Ed Kushins on Living Like a Global Local

At 7:00 a.m. on the West Coast, Ed Kushins is talking about what he knows best: the art of home exchanging. He speaks with a glass-half-full kind of voice and you can tell he’s a guy you’d be happy to sit next to on a 14-hour flight to Mumbai. But that’s not where he’s headed next

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Cooking with Cactus and a Mohawk: Ritz-Carlton’s Arizona Chef on the Local Food Movement

Joel Harrington has covered a lot of ground since his days as a teenage fry cook at a family-owned restaurant in Vermont. The Chef de Cuisine at Core Kitchen and Wine Bar of The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain in Arizona, has spent time in New York, California and Texas—earning praise and nominations along the way from the likes of the James Beard Foundation, Zagat, and Esquire—but seems to have settled nicely