Ladurée as a mini-corner IN colette at the moment. Gah! To be in Paris.

From a recent DISH party

If you read this blog even once a month, you know what a granola fanatic I am. From making it to rating it, there’ve been many an ode to the stuff. So, when I found Mix My Granola a few weeks back, I knew it’d be turning up on the blog whether I liked it [...]

One of the wonderful parts of Chanukah is the latkes. Of course I could make potato pancakes all year round but I could make a giant turkey all year round too and never do.  It’s the same with latkes. On the seventh night, I decided to make sweet potato latkes. I grated 2 sweet potatoes, [...]

On our last night in L.A.,  Jill and Taylor suggested dinner at GJelina – a new restaurant on a very hip street in Santa Monica. We were dazzled by the 20 or so choices of vegetable small plates on the menu and our favorite of the ones we tried was roasted cauliflower. I made my [...]

Thanksgiving this year was very atypical. And very delicious. As a midwestern mother of three, cooking for days to prepare for a Thanksgiving feast was de rigeur. So what a treat it was to be a guest this year. The whole family visited Jill’s new home in Malibu and we had Thankgiving dinner with relatives [...]

My husband and I recently returned from the trip of a lifetime! We spent ten magnificent days in Bhutan, a majestic kingdom high in the Himalayas, a country still relatively untouched by Western culture. We thoroughly immersed ourselves in the Buddhist culture, enjoying clean air, organic food, breaktaking views and a multitude of unfamiliar cultural [...]

I’ve got an article up on The Daily Beast today about olive oil. If you are interested in learning how to buy it and what the best ones are, check it out!

Gjelina, that trendy but not too trendy restaurant on Abbott Kinney (that trendy but not too trendy street in Venice), is like Craft and Little Giant combined but with that California casualness and breeze that makes it unpretentious – even when it is crowded on a Monday night and Owen Wilson (he checked me out!) is hanging [...]

Zooma Sushi, located just down the way from Zuma Beach, for which it’s phonetically named, is a true neighborhood spot – quite, hidden, unpretentious. But it’s no frills atmosphere – like a third world version of Nobu in the country mart – masks excellent rolls that are both inventive and made from incredibly fresh fish. A [...]