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 [...]

Photo by Jose Picayo, for Bon Appetit Magazine Bon Appetit’s upcoming August issue features a Big Sur Dinner Party and story by me–an inspiration piece about growing up around Nepenthe’s storied tables and how it influenced my cooking, along with recipes. This piece has been in the works for months now, and it’s always a thrill [...]

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 [...]