The Salon Dinners ~ #1 through #60
“one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well…” ~ virginia woolf ~~~~~~~ Above ~ “RED” #1, Feb 18th 2012 ~ Deb Durant, Heike Liss, Beth Ann McFadden, myself, Christopher Willits,…
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Cal Peternell’s 12 Recipes ~ a meditation on mentors
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ~ Benjamin Franklin I came to cooking by getting involved. I would be in a specific place, and someone would…
an homage to oscar de la renta ~ october 20th, 2014
“there is always an emotional element to anything you make.” ~ oscar de la renta ~~~~~ the things we love are always emotional. whether people, places, or yes, the things we make by hand or…
Conjuring Britain & Venice ~ an intersection of inspiration, and interviews with Ant Sibthorpe and Simone Vitucci…
“Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it’s a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It’s only if I have an idea for…
A Mother/Daughter weekend in Lompoc & Los Olivos ~ reflections, memories…
“But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your…
On music, on breath ~ a conversation with Ken Helman
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ~ Aldous Huxley I’ve always had a love affair with music ~ whether dancing to the beat of the drum or deep bass, listening…
Telluride Film Festival 2014, excerpts ~ a visual diary
“At last she was going to know the joys of love, the fever of the happiness she had despaired of. She was entering a marvelous realm where all would be passion, ecstasy, rapture: she was in…
Telluride ~ on Fashion, Film, Food ~ and a trunkshow at Wizard Emporium…
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” ~ Nelson Mandela It’s a simple idea, and I like to think of Telluride as…
California Road Trip ~ with the family, with Ponyo…
“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train.There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the…
Angelo Garro ~ hunter, forager, mentor, friend…(part 2)
“I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads” ~Gabriel Garcia Lorca I met Angelo on a boat in the Bay. It was the day…
Fashion, Film, Food ~ Through Royal’s EYES
“What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.” ~ miuccia prada My daughter Royal has a voice… she has a voice…
Pixar, Willy Wonka, Molten Chocolate Oooozy Cake, and memories of Hershey Park…
Pixar is our backyard… Located in Emeryville, California, it is literally less than ten blocks away from where we live in West End Commons in West Oakland. I used to think of this more abstractly as…