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The James Beard Kitchen cam made its debut today with Daniel Boulud and his team cooking from his cookbook Daniel: My French Cuisine. I found myself watching as much to see talented chefs making beautiful food as to see if they display the temperament of the many chefs whose kitchens I spent time in many moons […]
Here in Marin we are lucky to have the best cheese on the planet in our very own neighborhood. And my friend and food writer Brooke Jackson, who was kind enough to invite me to attend the Cowgirl Creamery cheese event that she discusses in her article, wrote a lovely piece on this most amazing food […]
If facebook is any indication, then everyone is painting in bars these days. Have you noticed? So many renditions of Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Hawaiian sunsets and flowers a la Georgia O’Keefe posted on my wall in the last few weeks. Even the AP has noticed. I’m starting to feel a bit left out and […]
Tell me where to go (and be nice!) I’m off to NY and DC this summer for a quick visit and a wedding (aack….what are they thinking?…planning an east coast wedding in the summer is a little bit mean!). 5 days in NY split between Miller Place on the north end of the island and Brooklyn/Manhattan. Do […]
Since we are on the topic of awards, the Northern California Chapter of IIDA just announced the winners of their tenth annual Honor Awards. A couple of my friends were big winners and their projects are amazing. Studio O+A Primo Orpilla and I went to college together in Silicon Valley when it was still young. […]
One of the things that I love about San Francisco is that people will forego paying the heating bill if necessary in order to eat great food. There is so much amazing food going on in Bay Area restaurants that sometimes something has to give. I can always burn old chairs for heat, but never in this lifetime […]
weekly produce I love getting my weekly box from the good people at Capay Farms. It’s like a present every Tuesday. Sometimes I get something new….something I’ve never tried before, like kiwi berries. Party in my mouth people! So when I received an email from Farm Fresh to You last Friday about a party in their […]
Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist (now that is a new one for me), studied what motivates people at work. What he found is that in our ‘knowledge economy’, vs the economy born of the industrial revolution, workers are more productive and willing to work harder if they are able to see a project all the […]
This is what I do when I should be doing something else. I spend time trolling for creativity, usually through music. Sometimes this happens at my grandmother’s piano. Sometimes it happens when I’m searching for something else on the internet. The ideas are all out there waiting to be found. Jarbas Angelli saw this photo […]
“I took a deep breath and plunged the little yellow seeds into the ground that was not mine. I snaked the hose around from our backyard and sprinkled water onto the bare patch of soil. Lana and I stood and watched the water soak in. What I was doing reminded me a little of shoplifting, except […]
The Little Chihuahua in my new SF hood (nopa) is now serving brunch and they have chilaquiles on the menu! Steve and I cruised the neighborhood yesterday morning and found the Grove Street farmers market (complete with a little cooking exhibition!), about three hundred cafes serving breakfast, and every shade of neighbor. It was awesome. […]
Remember way back in early 2012 I told you about Paper, that remarkably cool app that made me consider buying an iPad? Yes, well that’s now ancient history…Steve got me an iPad for my birthday that year. Not only did I immediately get the Paper app (and watch every single episode of Breaking Bad), but […]
Friday nights get more interesting beginning March 28 with the opening of the tenth season of the deYoung Museum’s ‘Friday Nights’ series. Art, music, food and special events beginning about 5 (see the website for specific times each week) and ending about 8:45. Here’s the line up for the first Friday (3/28) Create a mixed-media landscape […]
Giuseppe Naccarelli, the chef/operator at Trabocco Kitchen and Cocktails in Alameda, grew up in Abruzzo, Italy, a region bordered on the east by mountains and on the west by The Adriatic Sea. Naccarelli was raised in the kitchen and after moving to America spent nearly 20 years at Il Fornaio. With his first foray into […]
‘Imaginative people have messier minds,’ Scott Barry Kaufman, a psychologist at NYU told Huff Post. I believe this might be my favorite quote of all time. And if you know me well, you can expect to be bored with variations on this theme for the next several days. But it is an apt description. Creative people […]
At the core I am a story teller. I’ve been designing commercial interiors for over twenty-five years and writing for much longer than that.
When I’m not working on a project I’m creating note cards, jewelry, a better way to get through daily chores, my own stories both true and not so much, a new garden, furniture, recipes. And most importantly relationships….with family, friends and clients. I live in San Francisco with hubby, one small dog, three chickens and a son and daughter who come and go, and spend a great deal of time texting my children.
~Leslie