I have a penchant for home-decorating shows. While I lack a great wealth of cable channels at home, at the gym I have access to HGTV, TLC, A&E and scores of other networks to satisfy my closet-designer desires. So, as I attempt to work off the extra calories I imbibed while trying a […]
I had been scheduled to attend a Sunday morning meeting in San Francisco earlier this month, but an airline fiasco out of LAX resulted in my missing the meeting and facing a single afternoon in San Francisco before flying back home.
Ah! Opportunity.
Wandering the streets of the Union Square area, my spouse and […]
I wonder if silent film star Harold Lloyd foresaw what his carriage house would become?
I wonder if he liked good food? If so, I’m sure he would have approved the carriage house’s transformation into the culinary home of Suzanne Goin, the 2006 winner of the […]
Someone recently told me you shouldn’t eat oysters in months with an “r.” Perhaps this is true in New England (my current home), but not in the Pacific Northwest.
No.
There, at Elliot’s Oyster House (Pier 56, Seattle), they celebrate Oyster New Year on November 3. True, oysters are seasonal, but the best […]
Since announcing at year’s beginning that I would be going vegetarian (with special exceptions for travel), I have been surprised to learn that, apparently, fish and chicken don’t count as “meat” to many people.
“Well, you eat chicken, right?” I have been asked a number of times.
Ummm. No.
To me “vegetarian” means I […]