Many factors have converged over the last two decades to create this synthesis of Provençal sensibilities and Sonoma foods, not the least of which has been the influx of ...
Narrative
My first article, a history of Sonoma County’s legendary radio station KVRE FM, was published in 1984.
In March 1986, my first article about food, “Try Lamb for Easter,” was published in the Sebastopol Times and News. Since then, I have written hundreds of columns, essays, feature stories and blog posts for local and national publications. “Serving Werner Herzog’s Shoe” won a 1997 James Beard Award for Magazine Feature Writing.
In this section, you’ll find new work weekly, along with treasures—think of them as my greatest hits—from my archives.
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Many factors have converged over the last two decades to create this synthesis of Provençal sensibilities and Sonoma foods, not the least of which has been the influx of ...
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Called my friend Jerry the other evening. "What's happenin' ?" I asked as I stirred onions and garlic simmering in olive oil. The aromas were provocative and ripe with promise. "Making ...
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Upon my return from ten days in Provence the questions, of course, have been inevitable: Is it as much like Sonoma County as you said? (Yes.) Did you have a ...
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I am what you could call microwave illiterate—I don’t understand its particular language and have never felt inclined to learn its unique grammar. As a source of heat, ...
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My first years in Sonoma County were spent in a small cottage on Old Lakeville Road Three, where I raised my two girls amidst the large dairy farms, undulating hills ...
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A few years back, I was standing in line at an outdoor salmon barbecue. Now, I’m not one to stand in line for food, I am morally opposed to ...
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I spent the next afternoon reading cookbooks and gathering ingredients. Not being one who makes refined French fare very often, I used Madeleine Kamman’s books for inspiration and the ...
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Each spring—and I imagine it is the same couple that has returned for the last three years—they swoop out over the berry vines towards the gently sloping valley, ...
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Off we went, to claim San Francisco as our own. We headed to San Francisco, to claim it as our own. My car had broken down on the way to ...
Opinion
All this is to say that neither those round flat circles of cooked corn masa nor the ones made with flour are wraps. They are tortillas. They have a long ...
