A Homemade Life is the title of a new book I’m reading, by first time author Molly Wizenberg, a young, slightly shy, and enthusiastic writer of the food blog Orangette  that is somewhat of a sensation in its own right.  I drove into the city yesterday afternoon, an absolutely gorgeous, spring day, just to hear her read, [...]

When we were growing up at Nepenthe we spent the day before the Easter holiday decorating eggs, not a mere dozen, but several flats of them in one sitting. We would gather around my grandmother’s sturdy family table in the kitchen above the restaurant, water tumblers filled with bright inky colors for dipping our boiled eggs into. [...]

  Heading down the coast for my son Trevor’s birthday on Tuesday turned out to be more of an adventure than usual. When I arrived to Big Sur the road had just closed north of the State Park due to a slide. No one knew what was going on, even the Caltrans worker didn’t know [...]