I sat down amongst the oak barrels in a damp and dark shed this morning to talk to local vintner Natalia López Mota. Natalia and her husband Branko Pjanic own Cava Garambullo, a small winery located on the road to Dolores Hidalgo, about five kilometres from the center...
“I may have brought French cooking to America, but Jim brought American cooking to America.” Julia Child I was about 30 when I came out as a foodie. It was when I decided that I might want to spend part of my Sunday afternoons looking through a glass door of an oven...
I am an old guy. Older than about 95% of the world’s population. Which means I have had a greater opportunity to make mistakes in my life, have failures in my career, and perhaps have a few regrets about what I might have done or not done about them. There’s a movie...
I moved to San Francisco in 1998 and…forget Alcatraz, Fisherman’s Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge…there were two places I wanted to, not just go to, but experience: Chez Panisse and Stars. They were both restaurants and they had something very much in...
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