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Paris My Paris
The attacks in Paris have hit me in the heart. Over the past twenty-four hours my thoughts have been tumultuous but my emotion has remained constant. ...
Food For The Table: Mission Chinese Food
Just try to find Mission Chinese Food. Go ahead. Well I suppose if you are not much of an adventurer and have your iPhone handy, you won't get lost, ...
Food For The Table: What Does A Tarte Tatin With Cinnamon Cardamom Ginger Vanilla Have To Do With A House?
I've always joked that the only way I'm going to live in a house again is if someone gives me one. A few months ago, I heard about a contest, which ...
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Food For The Table: Butternut Squash And Potato Gratin
Creamy, cheesy, saucy, gratin. It almost doesn't matter what kind of vegetables you put into it, it comes out of the oven tasting like a heavy ...
J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free: At The de Young
My first experience with Turner in the wild was in 1986 at the Tate Museum in London on my first journey out of the United States. I specifically made ...
Yo-Yos & Half Squares: Contemporary California Quilts At The Oakland Museum of California
My Grandmother made quilts. My time spent in her home was surrounded by Bible stories and piles of remnant fabric left over from sewing our lives ...
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Food For The Table: Sauté d’Oignon
One of the travel tips that experienced travelers to France will always tell to anyone who will listen is that you gotta try the food - whatever food ...
Photo Of The Day: Blue Gate
Every year at the end of August I spend a week housesitting for friends near the corner of 24th Street and Harrison in The Mission District of San ...
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Shakespeare & Company
There comes a time during any English speaker's sojourn to Paris when a pang of homesickness might hit. It might not be a pang for the actual home, ...