Loni Stark
Wine Enthusiast ‘Toast of the Town’ San Francisco
One evening out of every year, San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House lights up with 'Toast of the Town', a gala showcasing local and...
Pebble Beach Food & Wine: Lexus Grand Tasting the ultimate epicurian’s fantasy
Chef Morimoto's pork and red miso dish which showed how less can truly be more. I loved the intensity of flavors and everything on the plate and true purpose.
Urban Gardening: Planting tips and tricks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oNOaJ_2HbA
Now that spring is here, it's time to get planting. For you urban gardeners with tight space, check out my wooden vegetable planter box...
Artist Diaries: How to create leaves with visual interest
This week I made more progress on the foreground of my "Lucie Stern Through the Looking Glass" painting by adding in the leaves of...
Moulin Rouge: Life in Paris is a cabaret
After arriving in Paris on a Friday morning and spending the day in meetings, I decided the only way to cap off the day...
Planting tomatoes in a vegetable planter box
This weekend, after finally catching up with various errands including the yearly submission of income tax, I was able to visit our local garden...
“Play with your food” artichoke and crab salad with strawberry basil vinaigrette
There are few items more fun to eat than the artichoke with its edible leaves that must be plucked with fingers to be eaten....
Michael Chiarello speaks on ‘cooking as a sport’ at Pebble Beach Food & Wine
The foreplay as he likes to refer to it. Michael even goes so far to say it should be sometimes messy, "...you want to be in your food."
Eiffel Tower, Paris: A visit to the icon of romance
Of all the beautiful sights, sounds and tastes of Paris, it is the Eiffel Tower that has stood out as its most prominent symbol....
Artist Diaries: A student without a teacher
This week art class was just not as fun. Lee Hartman could not make it and her cheerful and sometimes sarcastic humor was greatly...









