Archive for the ‘About My Book’ Category

Gorgeousness

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 [...]

May Day Book Signing

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 [...]

Legacy and Living

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 [...]

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