Hannah Selinger

1 month ago | wsj.com | Hannah Selinger

Whether you’re drinking Champagne — you know, the real stuff, from the Champagne region of France — or Prosecco, Franciacorta, Sekt, Cava, or Crémant, you’ll need a vessel that is up to the task. The glass you drink your bubbly from does, in fact, matter; they complement your sparkling wine in ways a standard wine glass simply can’t. To help navigate the wide world of Champagne glassware, we tapped sparkling wine experts from around the world.

1 month ago | nshoremag.com | Hannah Selinger

Have you ever been to the Carousel of Progress? Originally conceived as the highlight feature of the General Electric Pavilion during the 1964 New York World’s Fair, the rotating audio-animatronic stage show moved to the Tomorrowland section of Disneyland, in Anaheim, California in 1967. Since 1975, it has become a mainstay of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida a regularly updated feature that allows audience members to travel through time to view American progress through different eras.

1 month ago | airmail.news | Hannah Selinger

I was working at Jean-Georges, the petite and bourgeois restaurant tucked into Trump’s building on Columbus Circle, just off Central Park, where the sounds and smells of New York faded into the austere dining room. It was a room of extravagances small and large. There’s no pleasure in a four-star dining room, no joviality. You can’t be jocular with your fellow servers. There’s no room for error.

1 month ago | 27east.com | Hannah Selinger

We pulled up to the hotel as dark was just approaching. Boston Common had come alive, the trees wrapped in colored lights. Inside the newly renovated lobby of the 239-key Four Seasons Boston — the multimillion-dollar renovation, completed in 2023, included the overhaul, initiated by Ken Fulk — a hot chocolate station, topped off with candy canes and marshmallows, awaited us.

1 month ago | nshoremag.com | Hannah Selinger

On the coldest week of the year, I walked into the steamy-windowed Damgeuda, on Haverhill’s Washington Street. Loosely translated from Korean, damgeuda means to immerse. Other translations: to bathe; to steep; to pickle. Anyone even remotely familiar with the food of South Korea might find this term apt. The national dish of Korea is kimchi, a traditional banchan—or side dish—made from pickled Napa cabbage, or cucumber, or daikon radish.