I survived my very first book event tonight. Thanks to the generosity of Elliot Bay Books and their wonderful customers.
And also thanks to Jon Rowley, who took photos for me when I asked him to, and talked when I asked him to, and demonstrated, and smiled and nodded and was generally very agreeable.And one…
Hey Seattle! I'm here.Wandering around somewhere. Have I ever told you about my blind spot when it comes to directions? We need to talk about it soon. I get lost about once a day. You think I'm joking…Do you recognize those hands? Can you guess whose they are? Want to see them in person?Thursday at…
It seems impossible that I'm finally writing this. But I am.Two years ago I set out on a personal odyssey. I had grown up in the country where I fished and foraged, and used my hands, but now night after night in the corporate world, sitting blurry-eyed, scrutinizing excel spreadsheets and watching the cafeteria…
I finally posted my book tour schedule for this fall and I'm going to be taking my horse and wagon around the country hawking books.I'm going to yell about it from town squares.So if you see a strange girl doing that sort of thing in your town, say sometime starting in late August, it's probably…
Last week I took part in a "Tuscan Photo Shoot." I was the food and food styling girl, and the other two masterminds were photographer Nicole Hill Gerulat of A Little Sussy, and prop/model stylist Danielle Gold.
Nicole is an excellent photographer so I didn't bother taking any money shots, but I did take the…
Cooking for a camera is oh so different than cooking to eat. But there are some factors to think about in both that are important...Color is too often just considered in photography when at the dinner table it can also stimulate the diner and make the meal taste better just for the way it looks.Texture…
Remember that time when I brought my shotgun to Kennedy airport and got treated like the Pope? And then remember how Jet Blue decided not to put it on the plane? Well they did eventually and were very apologetic and gave me vouchers and here I am. With my new best friend.You've probably noticed that…
I'm about to embark on a hunting odyssey for my next book. Somehow I'm going to weave it in and out of my "Food Heroes" book tour this fall. Somehow.And that's where YOU come in.I want to hear where you think the most exciting, interesting fulfilling, delicious hunts are. Ones you would love to read…
I spent this past weekend by a lake 7,000 feet high, where the air smelled like pine and dirt and other bits of heaven. What I liked about it most was that the days went by slowly, very slowly, but not the kind of slow you could ever be bored with. Something about looking at…