It’s been a while, but back to tell you that my Nepenthe Thanksgiving story–”Culture Club”–just made it into Saveur Magazine (Nov 2010, p 20). Here’s an online link to the accompanying recipe for Piquant Corn Bread adapted from My Nepenthe. Hope you will pick up a copy and make a comment on my Facebook page, [...]

To Big Sur, With Love The August issue of Bon Appetit has hit the shelves. Editor-in-Chief, Barbara Fairchild, in her “Letter From The Editor” (pg 12) writes that My Nepenthe is one of her current favorite cookbook/memoirs, calling it a “valentine” to my childhood at the legendary Big Sur restaurant. Of the “fun and casual [...]

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, [...]