I was just down downloading my videos from our Valentine’s weekend in San Francisco and got to craving Chinese . . . again. Despite the pouring rain, despite my GPS not working, despite our daughter going into hunger-tantrum mode, we managed to prevail with an outstanding lunch in Chintatown last Sunday.
Our original thought was to go […]
Last week was a trip. Literally, figuratively. Noemi and I headed to the east coast sans Christopher—an adventure in and of itself. For anyone who’s thinking of taking a five hour plane flight with a two-year old on their own, I’d advise you wait until they can play Scrabble or Othello or something to kill the […]
Word’s out. My hub turned the big 4–5 last Friday. I went covert and planned a surprise party for him . . . of sorts. Friends came by to say hi (purportedly) and played the perfect part of “no, no, we couldn’t stay. It’s your birthday!” while I discreetly snuck back to our room to gussy up. I came […]
It’s turned out to be quite the action-packed Labor Day weekend up here in Northern California. I’m on my way to hear a couple of speakers at Slow Food Nation, the inaugural event celebrating food in America the Slow Food way—focusing on the connection between field and fork and supporting the development of good, clean […]
Oh my, we’ve had our fun with lobster this week. On Tuesday, we had the big Hard Shell versus Shedder evening, where we cooked up five of each (vowing that we’d have all kinds of lobster left over between the five of us, which we didn’t) to see which we liked better.
As I wrote […]
We arrived in Maine, to the lovely house my parents rented on the St. George River near Penobscot Bay, on a rainy Sunday afternoon. But now it’s early evening on Tuesday and there’s molten sunlight igniting the colorful lobster pots strewn throughout the water. [photo below is the view from the deck of the house]
Truth be […]
I finally turned off my “out of office” message from Alaska and am turning right back around tomorrow and putting it back on for Maine. But before I shift to lobster, I wanted to write one last post about salmon, the people who fish for them in the Copper River delta, and the people I […]
Nope, this isn’t a new dish. I had heard that Copper River salmon were the creme de la creme of salmon, so I came to Cordova, Alaska, just north of the Copper River Delta and east of Prince Williams Sound, to learn more. And within an hour of talking to fisherman Bill Webber I was […]
I love Monterey. The whole peninsula feels magical to me, being the Steinbeck fanatic that I am, and each time I drive down through the thumbprint of the Salinas Valley and hear words like the Gabilan Range, I feel transported. I’m truly not fanatical about personalities these days—I think I fizzled out on Duran Duran—but Steinbeck just […]
First of all, so sorry for the down time last weekend. We had a little pointing problem with our DNS and it took a while to get pointed to the right person to fix it. And now I’m in New Orleans.
I remember the first time I stepped off the plane in New Orleans, the air […]
