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 [...]

After the events of this past week and some personal soul searching, I am struck by a comment author Ruth Reichl posted on her blog about why she writes about food, especially during difficult times. It was in response to a reader that suggested she should maybe stop writing about all the great food she [...]

Oakland has hit its Indian Summer stride with early morning powder blue skies and all day sunshine making way into effortless, balmy nights. Neither my daughter nor I could sleep last night and she ended up in my bed. By midnight I was still tossing and turning, throwing off the quilt, moving her long legs [...]