Adventures and Real Food
One of my earliest memories is being three or four and sitting on the stairs in my nightie. It’s early in the morning and it’s gloomy outside. I’m holding a cup—still warm from the coffee it just held, now gone—and I’m using a teaspoon to scrape the coffee-flavored, sugar crystals from the bottom of the…
Petaluma, the charming “working” town in south Sonoma County—and the place I call home— is a notoriously tough location for restauranteurs to succeed. As a result, I have learned to bide my time when a new kid hits the block, and see how it fares in the community before putting pen to paper. I’m glad…
It’s that time of year when winter fruits are in abundance – in particular, persimmons in our neck of the woods – and nothing seems more welcoming than the smell of spices and baking on a grey and stormy day. With a surfeit of Fuyu persimmons (these are the hard, apple-type) and a rock-hard pear…
It’s said that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. While it’s hard to deny this truism, it doesn’t ease the blow of either. Recently I was shocked and sad to learn of the passing of a dear uncle, my Uncle Ed, who lived in Hong Kong with his family. He has been…
When I think of riding a horse, it’s always in the English vein. Being a Brit, we didn’t call it “English” when I was growing up, it was just horse riding. And I have to admit, I’ve never taken to Western or cowboy styles of riding. However, the chance to be on and around horses…
A bit about me... I grew up in the UK and moved to Northern California in the late 1990s, drawn here, like so many others, by the lure of the dot.com ...
