Archive for November, 2008

You got served

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Iris and I did a pirate story called Root Cellar Island, in which K. Rool and his crew find a secret cache of root vegetables under Iris’s bed. They roast them over an open fire, with the help of Iris (a good fairy). K. Rool: I have a question. What are you planning to […]

How to create an adventurous eater

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Travel around the world with your kids, exposing them to local foods from Kashgar to Hua Hin. Write bestselling travel cookbooks and test recipes on your children. The result: “Tash hates onions, garlic, scallions, chives, and ‘every other oniony thing,’ and Dom’s view of seafood is ‘I have trouble being at the same table with a […]

The deluxe culinary vampire

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

As Laurie put it, “You’ll have to admit that you saw the vampire movie, but…” We saw the vampire movie. There was more brooding than in the average henhouse. It featured the surf nazi who killed Marissa Cooper, the guy whose main claim to fame on the OC was that everyone pronounced his name differently. This […]

What the monkey dragged in

Monday, November 17th, 2008

East by southwest

Monday, November 10th, 2008

On Good Food this week, they mentioned that the current (November) issue of Los Angeles magazine is the Asian food issue. I managed to snag it at my local magazine store, and it’s worth getting even if you don’t live in LA and are kind of afraid of LA. The best feature covers their favorite Asian […]