Anyone who says there are no seasons in Southern California has never been to Chino Ranch in the summertime. I stopped by the farm today–after a morning hike on the secret horse trails of Rancho Santa Fe that, along with a lifetime of free firewood and a covenant that insures your neighbor can never build [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘alice waters’
March 29, 2009
Speaking of Food
I haven’t written here in awhile for a number of reasons, only one of which I will get into now, and that is that in one of my last posts I asked what people might serve to Alice Waters should she come to their house for dinner, which was, looking back, an inauthentic question that [...]
March 13, 2009
When Alice Comes to Dinner…
Consider this a cry for help.
Alice is coming to dinner. What should we serve? No, this isn’t a riddle, or even a hypothetical question. This is a problem. (I mean, if you can call it that.) I’m talking about an evening in the near future where Alice (those of you to whom this desperate cry [...]
February 5, 2009
A Key Maneuver
As a person who judges herself in part on the relative success of any party she gives, I really admired Joan Nathan for her honesty in admitting, in her op-ed piece in yesterday’s New York Times, that, as she stood with a now famous chunk of Persian-style grilled chicken lodged in her throat, unable to [...]
February 4, 2009
The Year of the Bayleaf (and Other Modern Myths)
I feel it’s not fair to criticize something without offering a solution, so in case the whole pineapples and fists full of daisies didn’t satisfy you as an alternative to Edible Arrangements, I have more ideas. Last month, I helped to plan an underwriting dinner for the Art.Food.Hope dinners that Alice Waters gave in Washington, [...]
January 26, 2009
Why Do Chefs Eat Salad With Their Fingers?
Earlier this month, inspired by our beautiful new president’s (then president-elect’s) call for change, I helped to plan a fund raising dinner in Los Angeles to help underwrite the much-publicized dinners that Alice Waters more recently hosted in Washington, D.C. It was an exciting, happy, and hopeful occasion with the kind of famous names in [...]
January 24, 2009
Look it up. (Or: The Fine Art of Frizzling.)
“I wonder what we did before the Internet,” is one of those phrases that I hear and even say, but that I don’t give any real thought, or actually wonder about at all, until this week when I left my computer in our nation’s capital in—of all places—a bar. It was a wine bar, if [...]
