I haven’t been this excited all summer folks. This week, my local meal featured….PIG!
I go up to LA at least once every two months, mostly cajoled by a group of friends who come up with one excuse or another to lure us up there. By default, I often end up crashing at a friends studio [...]
I really respect Jay Porter of the Linkery. I don’t know of any restaurateur who is as wholly determined to do things the right way. By right, of course, I mean consciously and ethically, mindful of consequences and causes. Since opening the Linkery, Jay has proven that things shouldn’t be taken for granted–that meat doesn’t [...]
So, a few weeks ago, I was sitting down eating lunch on the steps of the NBC building, overlooking the Thursday afternoon farmers’ market in Horton square, when I was approached by Kevin Leahy, an intern at KPBS, who asked if he could ask me a few questions about shopping at the farmers’ market. Undoubtedly, [...]
There are times, I’ve come to realize, when life just doesn’t make itself conducive to blogging. Hence me not getting my meals posted in time to be included in the One Local Summer week 7 OR week 8 roundup (delinquent, I know). Luckily, while my past few weeks have been hectic and jam-packed, they’ve remained [...]
Wow, has it really been six weeks? I’ve enjoyed every meal of it, but I think this week’s was my favorite. Unfortunately, this is also going to be a rather short post, sans photos, as I’ve just arrived on the East coast for an extended weekend….
The inspiration for this week came in the form [...]
Sometimes just one ingredient inspires an entire meal. This week, it was okra.
I sauntered up to one of my favorite farmers’ stalls this week, hoping to pick up some blue lake green beans, a sweet cantaloupe, and some tomatoes, when I spotted the gorgeous, slender green fruit staring up at me. There was no hesitation, [...]
Ever since beginning the One Local Summer exercise, I have been in search of something that has long since vanished from the typical American diet: traditional cuisine. I have been convinced there must be a way to go back to eating before freezers, chemical preservatives, and round-the-world shipping changed our concept of dinner [...]
“If you go into a situation with nothing planned, sometimes wonderful stuff happens.” -Jerry Garcia
This weeks meal started with a wish for simplicity. I had just sent off the last of the out of town guests after a week of constant entertaining, and was looking for something no-fuss to prepare. Having missed my weekend [...]
Oops. I’m a little late this week. Prepared my meal on Monday but haven’t had a chance to write about it until now (family in town, and an annual, albeit not quite local tradition-Thanksgiving in July-took all of my energy). But now that the sea has calmed, I’m finally ready to share last week’s [...]
I’ve been fooling around with the new google maps feature, my maps, for a few weeks now. I wanted to add this to yesterday’s post but had to talk to a few farmers today before I could complete it. I hope to do this each week from now on, hopefully getting a bit more elaborate [...]