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      Dog Days of Summer

      Summer – in all its ferocious intensity – has arrived to Los Angeles.  After a very cool July, August is suddenly hitting triple digits.  With the heat arrives a malaise and inability, or is it an unwillingness, to do much of anything.  ‘Dog days’ are described by the Google dictionary as: 1.  The hottest period [...]

      Tour: Hollywood Farmers’ Market

      There’s a reason Felicia Friesema writes the farmers’ markets report for the L.A. Weekly.  There’s also a reason she leads tours of area farmers’ markets.  She really knows her vegetables and fruits — intimately, passionately.  She is a fount of produce information, and loves sharing her knowledge.  I recently had the pleasure of joining a [...]

      Review: Steak with Friends

      Steak with Friends: At Home, with Rick Tramonto.  Rick Tramonto with Mary Goodbody.  Andrews McMeel Publishing.  $35.00.  (304p)  ISBN: 978-0-7407-9257-1
      First off:  this is a really BIG book, and I mean that in the nicest possible way.  Secondly, I learned a new trick from it that I wish I’d known years ago (to bake bacon rather [...]

      Seafood for the Future

      “Sustainability is nothing more than basic supply and demand.  If we (and our demand) remove too many fish from the ocean (the supply) before they reproduce (have more little fish), they will go extinct (over fished).
      From Seafood for the Future, Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, California
      Seafood is one of the healthiest proteins humans can [...]

      I HEART Blue Sea

      I have always loved the ocean.  It has always been a part of my life.  Growing up along the Central Coast of California it was a big part of my childhood.  I spent most of my childhood in San Luis Obispo, a medium-sized California city half way between Los Angeles and San Francisco.  From a [...]