To cap off a great day of teaching and my last night in Paso Robles, host Brigit Binns made me this perfect cocktail. Bright with lemon juice, just enough spice from the ginger, strong warmth from the Makers Mark and not too sweet, it was my
Continue Reading Filmmaker Laura Gabbert's long awaited documentary City of Gold profiling Los Angeles Times writer Jonathan Gold is premiering at Sundance. The media already had their screening and I was lucky enough to see it a couple of weeks ago. You can read some great one-liners
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SemolinaLA kickstarter. Support a talented and tenacious LA maker. I'm a pasta snob. I admit it and I don't apologize for it. I believe that great pasta is an Italian cultural artifact that's been given to the world. And when I talk about pasta I'm
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I recently lost a friend. Joe Attanasio was 89 and led an exceptional life until the end. The hundreds who attended his funeral mass were the richer for having known him. Joe was a a lifeforce, a mensch, a legendary kibitzer. That's yiddish for someone who loves to
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There was a moment during the early 2000s when all of a sudden it became easy to find beautiful European varieties of lentils on the shelves of Trader Joes or Erewhon or Whole Foods. My chef Kathy and I would empty the store shelves of
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