Dinner Party

Jeana Sohn hosted a beautiful and delicious dinner party this past weekend. On the menu: clam miso soup and asian salmon. For dessert, she made the best chocolate cookies I’ve ever tasted. Here’s the recipe, as adapted from Jacques Torres … Read More

Saveur Love and Breakfast in Bloom

I spent an hour this afternoon reading the new issue of Saveur cover to cover and am feeling extremely inspired and full of wanderlust. The current issue, October, is “The Breakfast Issue” and we are taken on a world wide … Read More

SmogShoppe

The Culver City event space, SmogShoppe was aglow Thursday night for owner Sherry Walsh’s birthday dinner… Holly Vesecky did the beautiful table arrangements… The bubble gum pink ladies room is one of the highlights… Sherry was a picture perfect birthday … Read More

On the Road Again!

It was with bated breath that I anticipate the debut of Spain…On the Road Again, with Mario Batali and Gwyneth Paltrow (and icing on the cake, Mark Bittman) on September 20. The poster is cozy and gets me really excited … Read More

Smoggy

My friends Sherry and Miguel are opening an amazing new green event space in Culver City called SmogShoppe and Sherry invited me inside for a sneak peak. How a space can feel like a saloon, a vertical garden, a log … Read More

Secret Garden

Since Sundays are my only day off, I try to make them count, and yesterday, we had a magical experience hiking through Griffith Park to Amir’s Garden, a lush 2-acre garden created by an Iranian immigrant in 1971 after a … Read More