Urban Gardening: Planting tips and tricks
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 plans.…
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Recipe: Caprese Salad with Mia Sebastiani
Here’s the perfect spring and summer recipe: A refreshing Caprese Salad with some Italian zing thanks to Mia Sebastiani’s special version of this favorite. All…
Urban Forest Map: One San Francisco tree at a time
Today the Urban Forest Map non-profit project and web site launches. It’s quite fascinating for several reasons. First the goal of identifying and logging every…
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 would…
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 center…
“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…
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. It…
Loreto Live TV: Property Management for Baja vacation homes
One of the challenges of owning a vacation property is maintaining or renting it when you’re not enjoying a getaway. That can be even more…
Gone in 60 Seconds: Pebble Beach Food & Wine
When you think of Pebble Beach, it’s easy to conjure up images of beautiful golf greens overlooking waves from the Pacific Ocean crashing down on…