FOOD RULES

     In no particular order:1. Slice a red-pitted kiwi on the octagonal bias around the skin and making its head a flat base approach. 2. Never go to Whole Foods on a Sunday morning run unless your fridge in both compartments are assuredly empty— i.e., money is precious these days,...

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MY DAILY BREAD

 “They were calling certain styles by the name of lilacs and another manner assumed a verbal guise… metaphors such as these soaring from their lips while other street cries/sprang from sparrows finding scattered oats among interstices of the curb… and two of them croaked on the same day, if we...

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Phở Night

The nice family invited me over for homemade phở at their place last night - and it was a dinner to remember for a while (Vietnamese is one of those herb-centered world cuisines I love in their virtuous soups, this rare opportunity to experience traditional cooking was a time to savor and to learn...

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WONDER TARO

This morning before getting up I finished the novel The Friend, by Sigrid Nunez.  It's part elegy and part a writer's life in the city (New York) adopting a great dog (a gentle giant Dane) at the last year of its life. On a rented beach house in Long Island was the final summer they would...

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WHAT’S COOKING?

     My brand new cottage ohana is surrounded by trees, outside my living room window is a hanging banana blossom at its peak, and adjacent are tangerine fruits and foliages expectantly perfumed coexisting in the soil with tear drop-shaped avocados the size of small bowling balls (the...

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