I hastily wrote a poem about a month ago to submit within the deadline for the inaugural issue, “Hustle,” of 48 Hour Mag. The poem didn’t make the issue (and it’s a great issue), so I have revised and am publishing it here. More of my poetry lives in the kthread rhymes section. picky stealthily [...]

It’s really Tuesdays with Kim (김), the Korean equivalent of Japanese nori; the sparkly sheets of roasted seaweed crown the top of plates or, mixed into chèvre, can be cut and subtly flavor the center of a plate filled with radishes from Happy Boy Farms. Yesterday felt like an afternoon for a tea party with [...]

I suppose it was high time in this summer of reflection to make pain perdu, the more interesting version of what American cooks call French toast, this morning. Most bread doesn’t have the chance to wander off and stale in my kitchen (pain perdu means “lost bread”), and the usual accompaniment is jam, rather than [...]

With beautiful sashimi-grade fish sold at the farmers’ markets in Santa Cruz, I often buy yellowtail to slice and then make dandelion-leek miso soup; this afternoon, I flaked the yellowtail under crema mixed with my aioli, and the beautiful curled brackets of red cabbage from Route 1 Farms softened slightly, shredded, when mixed with vinegar, [...]

It was a beautiful morning at Santa Cruz’s Westside farmers’ market, what with the produce at Happy Boy Farms (springy chard leaves and rotund baby squash), a crispy quesadilla from the Garcia Family stand topped with avocado and crema, filled with pork and mushrooms, and variegated Eureka lemons from Route 1 Farms. My moment of [...]