Yesterday I wrote up the book The Third Plate by Dan Barber. He presents an interesting argument that if chefs change their menus and use a...

Recently I read an excerpt -- " What Farm-to-Table Got Wrong "-- from  The Third Plate by Dan Barber. I found this New York Times...

Miriam's 13th Birthday Dinner, May 25, 2014 Alice

At the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC: a new painting, "Still Life with Peacock Pie" by Pieter Claesz (1627) We v...

French cookbook author and medical researcher Edouard Pomiane (1875-1964), as I've written, published his first cookbook shortly after W...

There must have been dozens of paperbacks of Down and Out in Paris and London Last night my literary book club discussed Orwell's Do...

At right: my new Breville compact oven. At left and further forward so it looks bigger: my more-than-thirty-year-old Black and Decker Toas...

My Great-Grandmother, painted by my mother Thinking of the long line of mothers in every family, and how they influence us over the gene...

Grindstone from 6th or 7th century, Mesa Verde pithouse Pithouse at Mesa Top Loop, Mesa Verde National Park Now that we're back...

We left Mesa Verde this morning and drove all day. We're now in a motel in Brighton, Colorado, just outside Denver where we experienc...

This must be the bluebird of happiness! We saw it on the way to dinner at the lodge in Mesa Verde, where we arrived a bit earlier this aft...

Goodbye to Renaud's Patisserie & Bistro... Goodbye to the Farmers' Market... Goodbye to little birds who drink where p...

Santa Barbara harbor where we walked a bit just before dinner ... ... as the sun was about to set, we made our way to Toma restaurant ...

Channel Islands from Elwood Mesa  Bluebird against the evening sky

From our apartment around 6 AM yesterday and today

A head of red lettuce with leaves so tight it looks like a rose. Dark green lettuce. Tiny turnips with their leaves attached. Broccolin...

After a long morning and early afternoon of birdwatching Sunday, we had lunch at OB Noodle House not far from the mouth of the San Diego R...