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      Review: ‘The Berghoff Café Cookbook’

      The Berghoff Café Cookbook: Berghoff Family Recipes for Simple, Satisfying Food. Carlyn Berghoff with Nancy Ross Ryan. Andrews McMeel Publishing, $24.99 (156p) ISBN-13: 978-0-7407-8514-6
      Family food history. A slice of Americana. Useful cooking tips. The Berghoff Café Cookbook has it all — and more. Chef, owner, and author Carlyn Berghoff had me at ‘Deviled Eggs with [...]

      The Local Report – Lotusland

      89 miles, about 1.25 hours, from my home in Atwater Village.
      Lotusland in Montecito, California is a wonder to behold. I had the privilege of seeing it this past Saturday. Faye, a follower of this blog, and a docent at Lotusland, very kindly invited me up to visit. I took Robert and my mother, Dawn, along [...]

      Pimientos del Padrón

      Ingredients
      1 lb. Padrón peppers (80-100 peppers)
      3-4 cups olive oil
      Salt, large grain rock, Kosher, sel de mer, etc.
      Clean the peppers by rinsing them lightly. Dry them completely so they won’t splatter when they hit the hot oil. Leave the stems attached.
      Place the olive oil in a large skillet suitable for deep frying, like a cast iron [...]

      Sonoma County

      Sonoma County reminds me of France. I mean look at the above picture of Dry Creek Valley. It could easily have been taken in the south of France. The Languedoc maybe. Or Burgundy to the west even. It also has a lot of what makes France special. Great food, [...]

      Review: ‘The Barcelona Cookbook’

      The Barcelona Cookbook: A Celebration of Food, Wine and Life. Sasa Mahr-Batuz, Andy Pforzheimer. Andrews McMeel Publishing, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0740773945
      A cookbook about Barcelona? With recipes of all those great things I ate when I was there this spring? When I first heard about ‘The Barcelona Cookbook’ that’s exactly what [...]