Italian prune plums say autumn to me in a way few other foods can. When I was just out of college and living in New York, teaching myself ...

I know it looks here as if I've been neither cooking nor writing for the past few weeks, but it ain't so. I've been cooking. I...

Yes, yes, I already wrote about lunch at the Shangri-La , back in June. But since then a new chef has taken over, the charming and unpretent...

See the lovely bowl of soup above? Emery, age 10 1/2, made it all by himself. One of the advantages of growing up in a family where Mom l...

Michael and I enjoyed a lovely dinner tonight at Cube Cafe & Marketplace on La Brea. This is a place I've been wanting to visit fo...