Coralie Satta, Owner and Chef, Ghini's French Caffe

Houseguests? Impress them with Ghini’s Eggs Provençale

Coralie Satta, chef and owner of Ghini’s French Caffe in Midtown, creates French-influenced dishes  dishes featuring locally produced ingredients for breakfast, lunch and dinner. “I buy as much as I can locally. Everything comes from Arizona, for sure,” Ghini says, adding that everything is made from scratch. Ghini spent her early years in France with [...]

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Josephine Brawley Hughes

Tucson Foremother: Josephine Brawley Hughes

Josephine Brawley Hughes had so many firsts that she became known as the Mother of Arizona. Born on a Pennsylvania farm, Josephine graduated from Edinboro State Normal school where she met Louis C. Hughes. In 1868, they were married. Louis’s health problems required a warm dry climate. They chose Tucson but only had enough money [...]

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Mrs. Green is in a hurry.

Gina Murphy-Darling, a.k.a, Mrs. Green, is in a rush to save the planet. For her, this translates into working from morning to night on her multimedia company, Mrs. Green’s World. Her “all-platform green information machine,” which began just 4 1/2 years ago as a local radio show, is expanding in all directions. The force behind [...]

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Kristen Culliney is full of ideas for living a little bit greener.

It’s Easy Being Green: Kristen Culliney

“An urban hippie. That’s what my mother calls me. In a loving way, of course.” The alleged hippie in question is Kristen Culliney, chief operating officer of the Sahuaro Girl Scout Council, third-generation Tucsonan, wife of a firefighter and mother of a girl and a boy, ages 4 and 6. Her mom’s reference is to [...]

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Vintage Taxco: One for you; one for your favorite client.

Not your mother’s souvenirs.

With the price of silver outperforming that of gold by 100% in recent years, adornments cherished for ageless style are increasingly gifts of lasting value. Vintage Navajo silver jewelry set with turquoise stones and coral are today treasured as priceless works of art. But early knockoffs created for Fred Harvey’s restaurants and souvenir shops have [...]

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