Art, Poetry & Essays • But not necessarily in that order.
Farmers come in from around the Bay Area, Sacramento Valley, and the San Joaquin Valley to sell fresh produce at the El Cerrito Farmer’s Market every week. The market opens at 9 AM and closes at 1 PM on Tuesdays and Saturdays. As the summer winds down, the late season plums make their final appearances. […]
The Sunday before my father died, I baked an orange sour cream cake. I got the recipe from Donna Hay. The beautiful photographs of impossibly beautiful food prepared with the most beautiful ingredients inspired me to make it. My cake didn’t turn out quite as beautifully as the photograph in the magazine, but it tasted […]
Olympic contenders aren’t chosen for their good looks. That’s not to say that a cute young gymnast like Mary Lou Retton won’t beam out at you from a box of Wheaties. While watching the Olympics recently, it was refreshing to see the fastest, strongest people on earth had bad haircuts and crooked teeth. You can be ugly and get […]
Along a cobblestone street in Budapest, a small hat shop sits a top a simple, stone step. The garish stores next door seek to crowd out its neighbor. With grace, charm and dignity, the little hat shop rose above the noise and invited us to come into the store–without ever demanding our attention. The proprietor […]
Before my trip to Paris, a friend of mine told me to enjoy the food in France because it’s the best food in the world. Certainly, some of the best food I’ve ever eaten, I ate in France. For a week in Paris, my wife Jill and I lived with one hand on our wallets […]