Trip Advisor listed Maya Bistro as the best Placencia, Belize had to offer. Most items in this Central American village were priced fairly, but a taxi ride to Maya Bistro, seven miles from our hotel, would cost us sixty bucks one way. I suspect the speed bumps add up. When … Read More
‘Tis the season to be frenzied. Really. Every year, the holiday spirit grabs ahold of me and I add one more DIY project to the list, squashing thejolly out like an ant on a Riverdance stage.
Last night, I finished Griffin’s fourth Secret Santa gift for school – the same school … Read More
Can I write about real food and and not address prop 37 — California’s proposition to require that food producers label genetically modified ingredients?
It’s not that I’m entirely against genetically modified foods for instance when it comes to ways to feed the daunting food supply demands or for so I … Read More
Global warming a myth? My dead plants and asthmatic cat beg to differ.
Unusually warm summer westcoast nights reminded me of the other, more balmy, coastal nights which reminded me of shell fish and then lobster rolls or shrimp rolls in this case. All thoughts lead to food. Starting with last … Read More
If you’re tired of theprevailing methodfor shrimp perfection, Michael Ruhlman’s mouth-watering preparation is impossible to pass up and impossible to ruin. In the Butter chapter – and he had me at butter chapter – from his James Beard Award winning cookbook,Twenty,Ruhlman dissects twenty cooking techniques and foods from Water to … Read More