Kitchen confident home cooks, heads up! Kitchen Circus is holding open auditions for amateur home chefs. Audition information at http://kitchen-circus.com and submissions are due September 21, 2012. Kitchen Circus is hosted by my pal, Thierry Rautureau, the French chef featured … [Read more...] about Auditions for Kitchen Circus
Various & Sundry
Friday Reads: Our Rescue Dog Edition
If Mike ever thought he wanted a threesome with a young blonde, I don't think this is what he had in mind. About a month ago, Mike and I adopted an 18-month-old rescue dog we named Maddy who had been picked up by animal control in Yakima. Although the rescue organization thought … [Read more...] about Friday Reads: Our Rescue Dog Edition
Cook with me on May 22 in Seattle
Just a heads up that I will be teaching a class on how to cook all the various (and sometimes confusing) vegetables and fruits that show up in a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) or show up at stands at farmer's markets. Along with this, I'll be talking about how we can all … [Read more...] about Cook with me on May 22 in Seattle
Self Portrait
As part of an ongoing series of assignments from Penny de los Santos, last week I had to compose a self-portrait. Among the rules: It had to express something about me. I had to push the shutter (no help from anyone else). It needed to something conceptualized and composed, not … [Read more...] about Self Portrait
The last time I came to Austin
A couple of years ago, Mike and I came to Austin for the Texas Book Festival, a massive annual literary event started by Laura Bush. As we checked into the Sheraton, a standard monolithic corporate hotel, we noticed something… unusual in the lobby bar. A Texas-sized gentleman … [Read more...] about The last time I came to Austin
