<Sigh> While listening to Diana Krall at the Santa Barbara Bowl last Sunday night, I kept sighing with overwhelmed feelings. As she played the piano and elicited so much music from the one instrument, I turned to DH and said “THAT’S how you play the piano.” I saw Diana Krall at Gainey Winery in the […]
I received a lovely new cookbook for my birthday: Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolengi. I have to admit I was a bit overwhelmed at the first page turning event. I’ve spent 20 years in the Mollie Katzen world. I created my pantry, refrigerator and buying patterns based on recipes from
The Olympics are almost over. It has been an amazing 2 weeks. I marvel at the strength, the dedication, the endurance of these athletes. I like what Obama said: Now, let me just say, I know how to run – although I don‘t run as fast as these guys. I know how to swim –
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TC Boyle is a local favorite author who is regularly feted in the daily newspaper here in Santa Barbara. I had never read his work up to Wild Child, a collection of 14 short stories published in 2010. I didn’t know what to expect so when the first story was set in Santa Barbara, I
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Summer Sunday nights on HBO are delicious. In 2008, as an advertisement for their new series True Blood, there was a “news coverage” show whereby vampires “come out of the coffin” and take their place as vampire-Americans in society. The story goes that with the invention of realistic synthetic blood (True Blood), vampires no longer
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