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 [...]

[Cheese and wine, November 2008.]
I was watching some silly movie the other night that took place in England. The plot was pretty lame (but yes, the couple got together in the end, as they should have) and I don’t remember who was in it — however, there was a scene in which a [...]

When I really think about it there are these common themes: love, family, death, sex, reconciliation, food. All the rest is peripheral — even music, even writing. What drives us is relationships, both of the blood and of the body; the physical connection and emotional ties; the nourishment that slips down to our stomachs to [...]

[Mushroom galette, November 2008.]
There are days when all I think about is food — the preparing of it, how well certain dishes will pair with others, what specifically I should cook for a friend’s birthday, whether making the same dishes over and over again is a good thing or means simply that I am bo-ring, [...]

[Spinach fettuccine, revisited, August 2008.]
Way back when I lived in DC (as I’ve been living in San Francisco for over two years, my Washington days are now ‘way back’), during my first year out of college I lived with a friend in a huge and lovely apartment in Adams Morgan, right on Columbia Road and [...]