Food & Wine. Art & Food History at Abi's Farmhouse Kitchen
Driving “Green Bean” (aka our rented green minivan) back to the Portland, Oregon Airport… Me: “What do you want for dinner tonight?” Dean: “GREEN.” Me: “What? (laughing) That’s not a dinner!” “That’s a COLOR, Daddy,” Anni pipes up giggling. Dean: “Oh yes it is! After all the brown and white food we’ve been eating all […]
With so much of California’s natural beauty laid waste and charred this Winter, I took comfort in the beautiful Art works from friend Nicole Strasburg. In her celebrations of Nature’s most exquisite beauty! Nicole’s unique eye keenly appreciates atmospheric color, movement, and my personal fave, something I’ve come to think of as “coastality.” As in […]
The Fires still rattle me. I haven’t written or painted since that first Monday night in October. We fled those 50-80 mph roaring winds. Pausing only in blackened intersections as we drove west, west, west. Watching sprinting flames devour whole ridge tops and valley floors in our sweet corner of the wine world. Dean came […]
