You can’t buy sushi just anywhere, as one of my friends learned after picking up a salmon roll at a gas station. I still can’t figure out what possessed her, but she was sick for days. For the record, other places NOT to buy sushi: vending machines, convenience stores, and dive bars. If you live in most big cities in the US, great sushi is probably a phone call away – but that’s not the case everywhere. I thought it […]
Good eats for a good cause. Talented LA chefs and local food enthusiasts gathered around yesterday to support an incredible charity, L.A. Loves Alex’s Lemonade. In 2000, Alex a four year old girl battling cancer set-up a lemonade stand in her front yard to raise money for doctors and help them find a cure. After she passed away at 8 years old, her parents started the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation dedicated to building awareness and funding the cure to beat […]
Always remembering those we lost, and appreciating our freedom to the fullest.
One of my husband’s favorite treats is rugalah, a Jewish pastry/cookie that is made with a cream cheese and butter dough, and filled with all kinds of delicious things, like cinnamon, nuts, fruit preserves, chocolate, Nutella – if you aren’t familiar with it, wouldn’t you like to be? This year I made apricot rugalah (my favorite flavor) and speculoos rugalah. Speculoos is a Dutch spiced shortbread cookie that is ground up and mixed with vegetable oil to create a peanut […]
A week of posts about great hosts wouldn’t be complete without a recipe from Laura Bush. I learned a tremendous amount about hospitality when I worked for her. There was no detail too small to consider, to make her guests feel comfortable and special, and she never stopped thinking about it. Once, when we were hosting a group of Lincoln scholars at a lecture at the White House on Lincoln’s Birthday, she called me over during the lecture and asked […]
