My Top 25 San Francisco Restaurants for 2016
This is my favorite post to do each year…it’s just so much fun to come up with my top 25 San Francisco restaurants. This year,…
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Useful Over-the-Top Kitchen Gadgets (for the cook who has everything)
We all know there are a million kitchen gadgets out there. Some of them just make me laugh at how utterly silly and useless they…
My Top SF Restaurants for 2015
This is my fourth year posting my top restaurant list for San Francisco. (Here’s last year’s post for reference.) It’s my most popular, most shared,…
Great Wines for $20-$40
If you like great wine, you know the difference between a mediocre wine and a great wine. And unfortunately that means mediocre wines are no…
Explosive Flavors of Thai Swordfish
Last month my husband and I went to Copenhagen for our 10-year anniversary and had a food extravaganza. As written in a previous post, we had…
Touring & Tasting in Sonoma Wine Country
California is probably more well-known for its Napa Valley than Sonoma Valley, but Sonoma is a fabulous place to visit. Less touristy, and therefore less…
Dinner at Noma, the World’s Best Restaurant
You may have heard of Noma, the restaurant in Copenhagen named the world’s number one restaurant 3 of the last 4 years (it ranked 2…
A Recipe for Reading Enjoyment: Great Books About Food
Cooks love to read cookbooks without a doubt. But what about other books that relate to food and the experience of making, sharing, eating and…
My Favorite SF Restaurants for 2014
Each year since starting this blog, I’ve posted a list of my favorite restaurants in San Francisco, my home town. One of the many things…
Visiting the Amazing Napa Valley
I am one lucky girl…living in San Francisco puts me only an hour away from Napa Valley, oneo f the world’s best wine regions and…
The Fabulous Flavors of Hawaii
We all know and love the tropical flavors of Hawaii — mango, passion fruit, pineapple, guava and so on. It’s pretty hard to beat the…
My Favorite Cookbooks
We all have our favorites…the ones with dogeared corners, food stains that make the pages stick together, and the cracked bindings that show how often…
Summer’s Here…Time for Gazpacho!
I have to say, gazpacho is one of my all time favorite dishes. That beautiful flavor of a ripe, summer tomato married with a touch…
My 2013 List of Favorite SF Restaurants
Some of you who have been reading my blog for a good long time will remember my post of January 2011 with my top restaurant…
One of the Best Restaurants in the World. Period.
My husband and I do an awful lot of eating – both my own cooking at home, cooking with friends and family and of course…
An All-American 4th of July BBQ (and my mom’s potato salad)
Happy belated 4th of July! What a perfect holiday to gather with friends and family to share a great meal, watch some fireworks and toast…
Other Great Eats in New York City (NY part 3)
I decided to combine the rest of our culinary adventures in New York into one final posting. Not that I couldn’t drag it out to…
Drooling over Eataly (NY part 2)
As promised, I have several posts on my recent eating adventures in New York. This one is dedicated to Eataly. Surely you’ve heard about Eataly….the food…
An All Modern Evening in NY (tech, art, food)
I spent most of last week in New York — one of my favorite foodie destinations! Fortunately, I had my husband along, so we indulged…
The Delicious Tastes of Russian River Valley
Last weekend was my birthday, and we decided to go with our best friends up to the wine country for the weekend. Living in San…