06/01/21I Am Not Your Exotic: An EssayI am grateful to David Leite and Renee Schettler of Leite’s Culinaria for inviting me to write this piece. A difficult topic, but worth the emotional journey for me. Thank...Read More
09/13/15Nigel Slater and a simple salad of dates and thunderstorm celeryMaybe it’s the end-of-summer-something-blueish but I always feel a certain heightened sense of awareness this time of year–clouds gathering, the light slants a certain way, rendering the shadows long and...Read More
02/06/13Hawaiian Chef Tylun Pang and the Taste of Home“If you don’t have a home, you at least have your culture and your food and no one can take that away from you.” – Chef Tylun Pang NOTE: This...Read More
10/05/12Never enough poetry, or happiness for that matterA friend of mine is at Harvard on a Nieman Fellowship and just texted this morning that he is on a field trip, en route to New Hampshire to visit...Read More