Posted in Alice Waters, Dalia Sofer, Elizabeth Hand, Fave Food LA, Food, House of Meetings, Jamie Oliver, Mario Vargas Llosa, Martin Amis, Nancy Silverton, Nigel Slater, Psychology, Recipes, Russ Parsons, Septembers of Shiraz, Simon Hopkinson, The Bad Girl, books, reading on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now that I’ve put Scrabulous in its place, I can get to the posts I wanted to write at the end of last year.
My top reads of 2007:
The books that moved me the most this year are ones that took me to a contemporary place revealing a world previously unknown to me.
In Martin Amis’s House [...]
Posted in Farmers' Market, Los Angeles, POST, Peonies, Recipes, Russ Parsons, Sustainable farming on June 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Sunday and spring has officially arrived at the market. Perhaps even more than for the cherries and apricots, I get there early to grab a few fragrant bunches of peonies from Ha’s Farm. Peonies are very expensive in Southern California. They require a hard freeze in the winter so they are scarce. [...]
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