…sprouted up as wild volunteers in a bed of succulents I just established at my curb this winter, and as usual the tomatoes growing on my sanctioned plants (twelve) that have been lavished with attention, thick layers of compost to enrich the soil, and structures to grow up, have been completely outperformed by the scrappy one ..
Category : food
…has been on my mind since I first noticed some of those pods plumping up a few weeks ago, and this afternoon I have the gumption to hunt them all down one by one, then to a stump in the shade to shell, and finally to the kitchen where they go into the the big ..
…or F.O.O.D., was the title given to the final public event of our Princeton Student Colony, which consisted of a variety of activities throughout the afternoon, but the highlight must have been sitting in a circle on linen squares around a student-made communal chopping board, wielding knives of varying sharpness, chopping vegetables for stew while ..
…at the Princeton Student Colony today takes the form of taping the platform into a geometric pattern, followed by each student wielding a brush of color upon a segment, and then as the sun set, a ball of student-made bread dough is divided into nine pieces, each formed by a different set of hands into ..
…is the pleasure of late winter L.A., enjoyed as four guests are coming over for a midday meal, so today it will be everything veg for a big pot of soup, plus leafy green salad, and the last of th..
…ya’ll, jealous? just violently beheaded from the plant out my window and now I’m slicing it up for steaming, but actually it tastes like heaven..
…were gifted to me in a classic Kerr self-sealing Mason jar this afternoon from a generous lunch guest along with a print-out of this recipe from Epicurious – inspiring me during these lemon-days in t..
…in a messy row between the broccoli and the kale are up and ready to eat on the rooftop garden ya..
…that under-rated Chinese fruit is starting to turn soft and yellow on the tree hidden at the top of the garden (planted in 2006, originally part of the Edible Estate #2: Los Angeles HQ installation at Machine Project) which never fails to give me an annual late-winter peachy, citrusy, mango-like surprise.(..
…is ready – and though it pains me to remove those pretty leaves in lots of shades of green from the garden – it’s also one of my favorite foods, an extremely critical addition to the spelt, lentil, carrot, leek, parsley, garlic, pot of soup stewing on the stove, so I’m just back from the ..
…caught me off guard while doing some L.A. re-entry grocery shopping on the other side of the hill in Highland Park, exiting Figueroa Produce – my new favorite neighborhood market and go-to place when I miss the farmer’s markets – where I came upon a make-shift main street of various food makers, families making themselves ..
…is the homemade honey operation of Tulio who we visited this morning – a first possible collaborator in our as yet somewhat undefined but clearer by the day spring project – at his suburban Pescara residence located on the land where his father and grandfather cultivated the land, and raised cows, where he as a ..
…(a triangular modular system that can take just about any form you can imagine) in my dome organized by Francois Perrin this afternoon was an intimate kick-off for his upcoming LA-Paris program at the end of the year – events, activities and projects created collaboratively by artists & architects from the two cities – and ..
…are what’s for dinner at a neighborhood friend’s place, so we are talking about my favorite mycology enthusiast ..
…(tiny intimate crunchy veggie local organic sort of deal) is my favorite place to eat in the area, when I actually manage to go out, and tonight I was lucky to have a friend in the kitchen…Eden Batki, who is cooking up some LA food plans herself…
…is everything you want, using whatever is available, becoming whatever you need it to be, lasting for a while, feeding whoever shows up, and my weekly drill these days – and for dinner parties – gathering up all of the great soup-friendly produce at the local Atwater Village Farmers Market on Sundays, sautéing things like onions, ..
…which I have been making just about every other day since I first discovered it, was the star of another dinner party the other night, four loaves devo..
…this afternoon while trying to approximate the simple primitive spelt (farro) and water non-yeast bread that I fell in love with in Italy – especially the stuff made by the mystical baker/artist with a little stand at Rome’s Città dell’altra Economia whom I would visit most Sunday’s (who would apologize for the ashes on the bottom of the ..
…is the recently opened neighborhood boutiquey charming but expensive green grocer that I am hearing about – as I’m asking around trying to figure out what progress has been made with access to simple good food on the east side of LA while I’ve been away the past 16 months – so I stop by ..
…by our friends at Åbäke is in the works for the Animal Estates London HQ, Urban Wildlife Client Services, and today we received this exciting preview planning picture of jars and jars and jars of the local stuff….m..
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