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(Photo credit: Amy Zavatto)
You won’t be able to resist the tug. Walking by Pure Soul on Bridge Street in Shelter Island, you will stop in front — guaranteed — or at least slow your roll long enough to look in the window. When you do, you’ll feel a sensation that might remind you of opening up a fantastical storybook, all full of beautiful pictures and bright colors and a tale that pulls you into another world as soon as you start reading.
This is what it feels like to enter Sylma Cabrera’s world; and it’s what she wants you to feel like when you wander among the breezy, beachy wearable treasures in her five-year-old boutique, Pure Soul.
Amy Zavatto is the Editor-in-Chief for southforker, northforker and Long Island Wine Press. She's a wine, spirits, and food journalist whose work appears in Wine Enthusiast, InsideHook.com, MarthaStewart.com, the New York Post, Liquor.com, SevenFifty Daily, Imbibe, Men’s Journal and many others. She's the author of The Big Book of Bourbon Cocktails, Prosecco Made Me Do It: 60 Seriously Sparkling Cocktails, Forager’s Cocktails: Botanical Mixology with Fresh, Natural Ingredients, and The Architecture of the Cocktail. She is a respected judge for the American Craft Spirits Association’s annual small-production spirits competition, and has moderated numerous panels on the topics of wine, spirits, cocktails, and regional foodways. She is the former Deputy Editor for the regional celebratory publications, Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn, as well as the former Executive Director of the Long Island Merlot Alliance. She is a member of the New York chapter of the international organization of women leaders in food, wine, and spirits, Les Dames d’Escoffier. The proud daughter of a butcher, Amy is originally from Shelter Island, N.Y., where she developed a deep respect for the East End’s natural beauty and the importance of preserving and celebrating it and its people.
