For M.F.K Fisher, a good holiday was characterized by “lots of books for Christmas, stockings, candy, and nice gloves.” I can’t hel...

All you really need to know is that Tara sent me gorgeous Seattle leaves in the mail.  Ok, I could tell you a little more. Like how on...

Dry and scatter your colored leaves. Don't worry if the edges curl up a bit, they look prettier that way. Invest in some tiny sea...

Yesterday, as we were driving home to San Francisco from Southern Oregon I must've driven Sean crazy with my ongoing ...

Sean's dad lives in Hawaii, which means at least two times a year we visit. (Lucky us). Each trip we stay in the same boutique hotel, ...

  If you don't know about Remedy Quarterly you must, you must! RQ is a charming magazine filled with food memories and t...

The reason I decided I wanted to write a book about M.F.K. Fisher wasn't because I was obsessed with food and wine. It was bec...

All I have for you tonight is a few photos. Photos from our vacation that I meant to post and write about immediately (and beautifully!) ...

I've been plowing through books lately, and consuming them with the same frantic, never-come-up-for-air feeling that I remember from ...

Just a taste of what we've been eating while living in a cabin in Pt. Reyes for two weeks.

Where did the week go? It's the nicest Friday in San Francisco I've ever seen, and it's made me incredibly dreamy. Here are so...

 As I look at the pink trees I start to bloom: P.S. The other night I made a riff on this recipe from DIY Delicious. Our "rea...

Robinson Jeffers was the first poet to introduce the idea of wild and untamed California spaces to a national audience. The "California...