Food, Photography and Bons Mots
My friend Sarah is the queen of lemon bars. In her home, lemon bars are a food group unto themselves. Sarah has given her blessing to this variation on the traditional lemon bar recipe. Gene, lucky husband of the lemon-bar queen and lemon-bar connoisseur in…
Back in the day, my husband and I were fortunate to travel frequently in Greece and Turkey. We always stayed at the same hotels, the modest Plaza Hotel just off Victoria Square in Athens with its roof-top view of the Acropolis and the magnificent old…
This recipe represents a marriage between two fond food memories. Years ago, I attended a cooking school in downtown Seal Beach called La Bonne Cuisine. The lady who ran the school was a gifted cook, a dedicated foodie and a bit edgy. One…
I love cheesecake. For many years, I celebrated the end of a successful school year by sharing this cheesecake with my Advanced Placement European History students after they took their tests. I’ve taken it to my friends at my pup’s veterinary hospital. It has been…
