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THE SOUL OF A NEW CUISINE 
African-born, Scandinavian-raised, the dazzling chef Marcus Samuelsson has rediscovered the tang, spice, simmer, variety and imagination-igniting pleasures of a continent's cooking.
March of the Martinis 
Some people, when they're new to town, invite the neighbors over for cocktails. But when Jonathan and Kimberly White bought a house in Hillsborough, California, in 1998, they brought the cocktails—martinis, to be precise—right to their neighbors. "We'd just moved in, we were sipping our drinks, and I said, 'Let's take a walk around the neighborhood,'" Jonathan recalls.
Strolling the leafy streets with a long-stemmed glass seemed to invite interaction and inspired them to ask others to join the parade. Soon Kimberly and Jonathan were regularly filling their baby stroller with martini shakers, glasses, and olives, and rambling around the neighborhood, acting as the Pied Pipers of the after-work set. Thus began the first "Martini Walk," a (very) loose tradition now in its seventh year with eight chapters sprinkled up and down both coasts. Jonathan—the "Grand Martini" of the organization says by hosting a moving block party, "we get to meet everybody." 
For more Great Food, check out the September 2006 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine. Subscribe now!
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