and the New Year: Fresh Greek with a San Francisco Twist

Pretty much all I ever do is dream about when I’ll get back to Greece. Well, perhaps that’s not entirely true — I do think about story ideas and what to make for breakfast the next morning when I have friends staying over or [...]

Like clockwork, every year just before Christmas I catch a cold. Perhaps it’s because it’s our extra busy season at work, or that I’m realizing the end of the year is mere days away and I get flustered, or because those holiday cards aren’t writing themselves, or because of the very chilly temperature outside [...]

[Cake, November 2008.]
Menu For Hope is an annual fundraiser put together by food bloggers around the globe to raise money for a world cause — the U.N. World Food Programme, and this year a school lunch program in Lesotho, Africa — which runs December 10-24. For every US$10 donated, the donor receives a virtual raffle [...]

[Caramels, December 2008.]
Last week the moon came out early — during the day, even, so I saw it as I walked to the bus in the late afternoon lingering light — and it was just a slim sliver, a perfect crescent. I wish I could have shown it to you it was so pretty [...]

[Mint-chocolate cake, December 2008.]
Today: Cold sun. Wearing blue shirt. Old black shoes. Peanut butter and almond butter and boysenberry jam on toasted bread and darjeeling-honey tea. Coffee. My soft white scarf. Barley and kale and chickpeas and tomatoes. Lots of water but not enough yet. Yesterday: Worked on holiday cards. Mooned [...]