I haven’t gone away completely. Working away on a new book project that I will tell you about soon. Scanning drawings, as in an old sketch of mango. Thinking about orchards, living in Big Sur, a blue bowl on my table. Much to do about memory, about making, creating, finding my rhythm in the kitchen, [...]

“If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.” — Frank Lloyd Wright Last night I presented at Linden Tree, an uber cool event series held at Sagan Piechota Architecture, an equally fabulous space in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley. Linden Tree was conceived a few years ago, [...]

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 [...]