Sunset magazine called it a valentine to one of the most beautiful places to eat in the world. Epicurious named it one of the best cookbooks of 2009. And Michael Pollan hailed it as “special book about a special place.”
I hope you’ll agree, and join me today for a My Nepenthe book signing at the [...]

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~Wallace Stevens
After what seems like weeks of intermittent rain storms, gray weather, and spotty sunshine it is a pleasure to wake to the subtle warmth and promise of spring. There is much going on in my world–no surprise–and as the legacy of Nepenthe continues [...]

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 could [...]