I’m getting ready for my trip to Denver to experience the historic hoopla of the DNC and Donna is out exploring new destinations for her faithful travel readers. So, CaliforniaAuthors is taking a little late summer break this week. In the meantime, enjoy:
Ray Bradbury’s future prunes commercial.
Eating LA goes with author Denise Hamilton on a [...]
Stories in Food:
Summer break at CaliforniaAuthors
Book notes and a few random links for writers, foodies, and readers with sore throats
Dan Weintraub chronicles the governor’s Party of One … Michael Pollen shares his simple secrets … Charlie LeDuff leaves LA … Cody’s owner Andy Ross tries the agent biz … Jonathan Gold updates his must-eat list … plus: Kate’s flu tips, the Pinball Hall of Fame, and an all-expenses-paid adventure to India, [...]
Exploring California’s Wine Country
In today’s San Diego Union-Tribune, Michele Parente samples four wine-related tales and travelogues. He saves the juiciest, The House of Mondavi, for last. “In her sweeping saga of four generations of Mondavis — which starts in small-town Italy in 1883 and ends in a corporate coup in Napa in 2004 — Wall Street Journal reporter [...]
The LAT’s Daily Dish
blog shares a recipe for Luna Lovegood’s Chocolate Pudding.
Grape Expectations
The Long Beach Public Library Foundation holds its annual fundraising extravaganza on Sunday, June 24. Tickets are still available, though you don’t have to attend to support this great cause. Check out the library foundation’s new online auction. Lotsa great goodies: Trips to London and Broadway and Cabo! Catered feasts great and small! Spa days! [...]
Fresh and spicy
Kevin at LAObserved points us to TableConversation.com, the delectable new online journal by LA food writer and cookbook author Barbara Hansen.
Born in Hollywood, I live in a 1920s house with a neighbor from Calcutta on one side and, on the other, Koreans who line their garden with kimchi pots.
My own garden contains a Oaxacan avocado [...]
Summer break at CaliforniaAuthors
Book notes and a few random links for writers, foodies, and readers with sore throats
Dan Weintraub chronicles the governor’s Party of One … Michael Pollen shares his simple secrets … Charlie LeDuff leaves LA … Cody’s owner Andy Ross tries the agent biz … Jonathan Gold updates his must-eat list … plus: Kate’s flu tips, the Pinball Hall of Fame, and an all-expenses-paid adventure to India, [...]
Exploring California’s Wine Country
In today’s San Diego Union-Tribune, Michele Parente samples four wine-related tales and travelogues. He saves the juiciest, The House of Mondavi, for last. “In her sweeping saga of four generations of Mondavis — which starts in small-town Italy in 1883 and ends in a corporate coup in Napa in 2004 — Wall Street Journal reporter [...]
The LAT’s Daily Dish
blog shares a recipe for Luna Lovegood’s Chocolate Pudding.
Grape Expectations
The Long Beach Public Library Foundation holds its annual fundraising extravaganza on Sunday, June 24. Tickets are still available, though you don’t have to attend to support this great cause. Check out the library foundation’s new online auction. Lotsa great goodies: Trips to London and Broadway and Cabo! Catered feasts great and small! Spa days! [...]
Fresh and spicy
Kevin at LAObserved points us to TableConversation.com, the delectable new online journal by LA food writer and cookbook author Barbara Hansen.
Born in Hollywood, I live in a 1920s house with a neighbor from Calcutta on one side and, on the other, Koreans who line their garden with kimchi pots.
My own garden contains a Oaxacan avocado [...]
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Slaughterhouse blues
In today’s LAT, Christopher D. Cook, the author of Diet for a Dead Planet, chews over the big beef recall and its dirty backstory. He writes:
Nauseating as it was, last week’s record-setting beef recall and the apparent feeding of meat from crippled “downer” cattle to our nation’s children and others should come as little surprise. [...]
File under: Commentary, Food, Politics/government, Shades of evil