It started with a food picture as so many of my culinary adventures begin.    It was a New York Times Food piece on Los Angeles’ Konbi Restaurant’s Egg Salad Sandwich–an elegant riff on the 7-Eleven Egg Salad Sando sensation in Japan.  But…it was hard.…

My good friend Carol gave me a delightful gift for my birthday— grow-your-own oyster mushrooms. As it turned out, the gift triggered my long-suppressed American Gothic. You know…the farm, the pitchfork, the Willie Nelson concert.   There I was every day for a couple of…