It’s been far too long. With my compliments: an overdue podcast in this week of travel and transition into the gifting season (scroll for the song list). When I was in Santa Cruz recently, Margaret and I paused to watch an otter rolling over and over, sending ripples out to the surrounding boats. I was [...]

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I have been cooking the big Thanksgiving meal for my family for years now, and I wake up early and cook straight through to the meal (no prep beforehand). It’s possible, even with one oven and some flaky burners. Your goal? Splendid leftovers, like this sandwich I made last year: Here’s how I do T [...]

Last Wednesday, I fried an egg on top of a beautiful piece of leftover spinach pizza from Fornino in my neighborhood for breakfast. And on Thursday, I flew to San Francisco, hopped in my rental car, and zoomed to Santa Cruz, just in time to help Renata chop root vegetables (she sprays them with water [...]

When I discovered on Wednesday that my friends Jonas and Dave were both in town, it seemed such a good occasion for having friends over for brunch on Saturday (above: Chrysanthe, Dave, Alex, Jonas, Winnie). Tricia, Audrey, Kenyatta, Kevin, Chris, Tarikh also filled the kitchen, and we celebrated the turn toward winter with warming foods: [...]