Art, Poetry & Essays • But not necessarily in that order.
On a Thursday afternoon, I rolled into El Cerrito Natural Grocery asking the question, “What’s for dinner?” I picked up cabbage, lettuce and a variety of fruit. I wondered over to the meat counter. The butcher offers natural, organic, and sustainable meats. They had skirt steak on sale and I thought, “Where’s the beef?” In […]
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 […]
Down the street from where my pops grew up, on the corner of Idaho and El Cajon in San Diego, the little taqueria El Tio Alberto Taco Shop serves up a divine cup of horchata in a styrofoam cup. It came right out of a fountain the way Coca-Cola does, yet it was incredibly smooth, […]
Crisp, fresh asparagus isn’t just for dinner anymore. No, really. Asparagus tastes great with breakfast. Each year, I get excited about the return of asparagus. Fresh asparagus has a wonderful sweet quality. Children don’t jump up and down when they see green tips of asparagus sticking out of the top of the brown grocery bag. […]