Recently, I was listening to some Woody Guthrie songs sung by Cisco Houston, and thinking about how our view of taming nature has changed ov...

Curious George is one of many beloved characters who inhabit children's books and children's imaginations. Curious George may n...

The Fourth of July: chips, salsa, hot dogs, potato salad, broccoli salad, white wine, s'mores, fireworks.  Nat, Len, Carol. ...

Fireworks, July 4, 2012, Santa Barbara Harbor

"Chocolate taste ... beginning in the 1980s took its substance from the nouvelle cuisine then dominant in the French culinary establ...

"Paris in July" starts this week: a blogging event that I have often enjoyed. My most recent trip to Paris was a little over a y...

Most of June, I was on the road, never in any kitchen at all. During the past week, however, I've been cooking and shopping again, and ...

Restaurant Martin   in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was the best place we ate during our recent long trip west. It's classified as "progr...

Home-made tomato sauce from a can of Italian peeled tomatoes, onions, red wine, etc. Turkey meatballs with a mushroom sealed inside each ...

Reading The Nix by Nathan Hill often made me laugh out loud, which was awkward when I was reading the book and also sitting on my yoga m...

... for our first lunch at home: grilled eggplant, red bell pepper, fresh herbs and tomatoes. How the herbs grew while we were gon...

A photo of our "four fathers" celebration. The fathers are: Brian, Jack, Jay, and Len. Also a few moms & kids. Update: t...

 

Aliens at a rest stop between Flagstaff & Albuquerque.  A long convoy of tanks was also stopped at the Rest Stop.  Lunch in A...