not everyone is cool enough to build large metal objects that do neat things . for example, how about this foot soldier , a "Weapon for...

a year and many missed opportunities and assorted cancellations later, i finally met irene winter for lunch. she is an art historian, schol...

compare this and this , two versions of the same article about matthew carter , designer of verdana , who apparently lives just down the st...

last sunday, i got up early to get breakfast with peter in cole valley, then marcela and patrick drove through and picked me up for the arti...

the day before i left san francisco, i saw a sign in the noe valley stained glass store asking for packing peanuts, two giant boxes of which...

in pursuit of a cheap air ticket, i took a two-hour layover in LAX. the wing operated by american airlines--which continues to be, purely by...

i'm on caffeinated beverage #4 in blue bottle cafe (17-foot ceilings, ash counters) and have just purchased a flat-panel monitor online...

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature , since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do....

ami thought i'd left early this morning but i was actually still snoring gently under a pile of sheets. so, around 11.30, we went to bru...

i got into sfo early in the afternoon and emerged into bright sunlight at the 24th st mission bart. i write from ritual roasters, accompanie...

but it's not what you think. see for yourself . (and for context, see this , this , and this )

one of these in cambridge.

some of us got lunch at casablanca , where the bread and meat are good and the grillperson is a pearl of great price. i had a slab of perfec...

60F today and sunny. for reasons unclear, we went into dorchester for lunch with dave. after winding slowly through the fenway, guided by a ...

the revised and expanded edition of seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees arrived today, together with trickster makes this w...

i got an email last night summoning me to somerville to collect the latest instalment in love+butter's starving student food program--i ...

finally, after 7 years, i found someone willing to go to oleana with me last saturday night. (and it's quite nice, by the way, to find ...

more tasty treats! our housemate eliminated refined sugar from her diet a month ago, so the birthday cake tradition had to be slightly revis...

pancake sunday has a new friend. last night: a stack of freshly-warmed corn tortillas with spanish rice, black beans, shredded braised chic...

why do so few good cooks or chefs also write well? ideas in food embodies the philosophy of grounded, inductive, cyclic experimentation (m...

not so long ago, researchers (many of whom in the pay of the tobacco companies) still found it possible to claim that smoking and lung cance...

yesterday, i went to toscanini's to meet ben and tory. the board was covered in bizarre and marvellous flavours including sherry (manzan...

not really, but close enough. i did the biweekly grocery run to harvest and whole foods (today in a cold but not unpleasant rain) and bought...

our internet service has been cutting in and out for days, but today is blue-skied and bright so everything is alright: the windows in the d...

In the old days it stayed light until midnight and rain and snow came up from the ground rather than down from the sky. Women were easy. Eve...

i can't stand his screenplays or the long books (i think these are just a matter of time), but his autobiography and short essays on foo...

haroun and the sea of stories is one of the childrens' books that adults should read. when i first came across it in secondary school, ...

The heart of real buckwheats, after all, is fragile, gentle, slow-beating, and indisputably alive ... Made into a batter sparked to life wit...

i went over to love+butter tonight so we could discuss the fancy new segmented table they would like to have built. we've probably worke...

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land with a hu...