I’m excited to finally say that my newest book PLUM GORGEOUS: RECIPES AND MEMORIES FROM THE ORCHARD, releases this week. I’m having a LAUNCH party at Mrs. Dalloway’s on College Ave. in Oakland, this Friday, July 15th and hope you will come. We’ll be serving wine and cheese and a few sweet and savory pleasures from [...]

It’s been a while, but back to tell you that my Nepenthe Thanksgiving story–”Culture Club”–just made it into Saveur Magazine (Nov 2010, p 20). Here’s an online link to the accompanying recipe for Piquant Corn Bread adapted from My Nepenthe. Hope you will pick up a copy and make a comment on my Facebook page, [...]

My little house on Ridgeway is overrun with  the remainders of a recent photoshoot with Sara Remington–baskets of berries, drying plums, roses, old cloth, notebooks, various plates and props and jars of apricots simmered in wine syrup. All the bits and pieces of creating a book, what we have been playfully referring to as the [...]