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      Recipe: Cannellini Beans with Tomatoes and Garlic

      Cannellini Beans with Tomatoes and Garlic
      Serves
      4 – 6
      Preparation Time
      45 – 60 minutes
      Ingredients
      4 – 14 oz. cans of cannellini beans, drained OR 4 cups cooked beans
      6 – 8 garlic cloves, chopped
      4 – 5 medium sized tomatoes, cut in 1/4ths, or 1/8ths
      8 – 10 Tbs olive oil, enough to cover the bottom of the pan
      1 tsp salt
      1/4 [...]

      A Restaurant in Italy

      Open and become a part owner in a restaurant in Italy?  Sure, why not?  That’s exactly what happened several years ago when chef Jeremiah Tower and I decided to try our hand at operating a ristorante in a small hill town in Umbria, Italy.  What no one tells you [...]

      San Francisco

      Taken from the new De Young Museum looking toward the Sunset District. Photo credit: Robert Guerrero
      San Francisco is the city of my birth. My father and my step-mother both attended Mission High School in the Mission District. After moving to the City in 1940 from Oklahoma my paternal grandmother spent the rest [...]

      Padrón Peppers, or Pimientos del Padrón

      Are they Italian or Spanish? I was *confused and still am. I first had something like pimientos del Padrón in Ravello, Italy while on a three week trip to France and Italy with my friend, Chef Jeremiah Tower. We spent the day driving along the Amalfi Coast stopping in at all the [...]

      Honey

      An homage.
      If I could be a beekeeper I would be. I love bees, always have. Not sure why exactly. I’ve been stung numerous times. I’m not afraid. I have two books on beekeeping, ‘The Shamanic Way of the Bee’ by Simon Buxton and “Beekeeping – A Practical Guide’ by Richard [...]