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Where To Buy Turkey in Los Angeles

November 19, 2009

I’m not sure how it happened, but I completely forgot to order my Thanksgiving turkey. My husband snapped me out of my ignorance of current calendar dates last night. He was gentle, but pointed.

“Chef Quinn ordered his turkey from Harvey…

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Growing Risk: Sebastopol Apple Farmers Face Hard Times

November 5, 2009

It’s 4:17 a.m. and fog drapes over the apple orchards of Devoto Gardens like misty gauze. While most of Sebastopol sleeps, apple grower Stan Devoto is in his kitchen boiling water. “It’s too early to brew coffee,” he says, grabbing…

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Moving from Blogger to Wordpress

October 15, 2009

Home feels so much better after a really good clean. That’s true for this blog, too. Maybe you noticed a few changes. What’s different? Thanks to lots and lots of help, I ripped out all the old Blogger wiring and installed…

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Food Woolf Nominated for Foodbuzz ‘Best Writing Voice’ Award

October 6, 2009

I got the news today that I was nominated for Food Buzz.com’s food blogging award for “Best Writing Voice.” Amy, my editor at the LA Weekly’s food blog, emailed me with the news.

First of all, it should be stated that…

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Expect the Unexpected-Blogher Food ‘09

September 30, 2009

Expect the unexpected is a great motto, but it’s a hard one to follow. Especially if you like knowing what’s going to happen next.

Blogher Food ‘09 was—without a doubt—a thoroughly surprising experience. I enjoyed meeting my blogging heroes and a…

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Where to eat at the Blogher Food Conference

September 25, 2009

I’m not gonna lie. I’ve got butterflies in my stomach. I can’t focus on my work. Rather than concentrate on the story I have to write, I’m day dreaming about the food I want to eat and hoping I get…

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Ben and Jerry’s big gay ice cream

September 2, 2009

When you grow up as a teenager in a small colonial town in Massachusetts there aren’t a lot of things you can do. In the 80’s, I passed the time in my small town with a cassette tape Walk-Man, movies…

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Getting to know you at LA’s Blogger Prom

July 23, 2009

Last night I stepped back through time and found myself on the roof-top deck of the Riot Hyatt (now the Andaz Hotel), dressed as a 1980’s prom attendee. Luckily, I wasn’t alone in my time travels. Thanks to the incredible…

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Third and Fairfax Farmer’s Market Celebrates 75 Years

July 16, 2009

Ten years ago, in the greatest uprooting of my life, I moved to Los Angeles after a lifetime of small town living in Massachusetts. Like most new arrivals to this town, I was a small town girl with big dreams…and…

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A Dash for Bragging Rights at Hungry Cat

July 8, 2009

It took weeks of verbal sparring to get Matt Jeronimo and John Curtis—two bartenders at the Hungry Cat—to the point where they needed to step outside to settle their argument. But on Monday, dressed only in their lightest gym outfits,…

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