Cooking, Life, Books and Words — sometimes with recipes.
The ingredients are now: Star anise, chestnut paste, egg, brown sugar, red wine, cream, cheddar cheese, buttermilk, quinoa, mejdool dates, honey, butter, asparagus and cured, aged ham (country not city). You only get to nominate…
I got caught out daydreaming – what with the Memorial Day holiday here in the US and so on. Paper Chef Number 7 will start THIS Friday June 3rd at Noon PST and will end…
Just as it becomes time to reopen the doors to the Paper Chef, I have a moment to get back to normal here and write a little tiny bit about cooking and what we have…
Another sighting has been made out there in the blogosphere (oh how I hate that word but it has become common currency). Breakfast With Pandora is a greek myth, writing and sometimes food site that…
Today I found via Meathenge, a new blog, Banlieu Blog in Paris. And very, very excitingly, it has a picture of a real copy of the book ordered and delivered and now happily living in…
That was a really nice launch. Even hotter than yesterday and it was pretty hot in the store. Maybe hot tea was a mistake. The other local authors, Stephanie, Ellen and Guy all showed up…
After yesterday’s wonderful day out at the Berkeley Farmer’s Market, we are going to be at the Lafayette Bookstore in Lafayette California at 4PM sharp today. We also got a wonderful boost from the even…
I’ve been nervous for weeks. I finally got to bed before 1AM for the first time this week last night. (If you didn’t get an email from me about the launch it is only because…
Today and tomorrow is the big launch! I’ll try to post some pictures (and some from the Farmer’s Market) tonight if I’m not too exhausted!
Whew! It’s a maelstrom of planning and publicity and ideas and shipping and on and on – and that’s just the day job! No, seriously, there has been a LOT of planning going on for…