There is nothing like a trip south to shake out the cobwebs and open new doors, and that is exactly how it felt as I made my way that direction, recently, with a friend. After an overnight stop at another friend’s organic farm in the sleepy agriculture town of Buelton (think the film, Sideways) we [...]

I have been stalling here, not sure where to begin or what exactly to write about, and meanwhile, I started cooking professionally again–nothing like throwing myself in the frying pan after a decade hiatus on the line.  Even so, with the weather shifting between winter and spring on any given day, I haven’t quite known [...]

And to think someone thought Elizabeth was me, or visa versa– A huge thank you to John Ray at Kepler’s Bookstore in Menlo Park, for putting this trailer together. I had no idea what he planned to do when after minutes of arriving in the store last month for my reading, he asked if he [...]