Wish You'd Been There: The Rancho Gordo Pozole Book Launch Party
At one point, I looked out on to the crowd, smiling, thinking, "Beans. Beans did this." How did I go from being the loneliest fellow at the farmer's markets to...
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Welcome Back, Lila. I Love You.
Sometimes you don't need a lot of words. That's how it is with me and Lila.
The Interview That Sort of Never Was But Still May Be
Earlier this Spring I was asked to do an email interview about our products and company for an ecommerce site. I think I did rather well but I was later...
Sweet Corn and Fresh Oregano Fritters
We had a great little party here at the Rancho Gordo store in celebration of the new book by Georgeanne Brennan and Ann M Evans, The Davis Farmers Market Cookbook....
My Nanosecond of Fame
Did you watch the Oscar telecast this year? You may have noticed a very tasteful and beautiful commercial for American Express featuring Thomas Keller and his French Laundry restaurant. Being...
Beans Cooked in a HUGE Clay pot and a Caja China
Friends invited me over to a party to celebrate their new Caja China and the roasting of a whole pig. Rich did all kinds of research and dutifully prepared the...
25th Anniversary Party at Cakebread Cellars
The American Harvest Workshop has been an integral part of the Napa Valley and blink, it's been 25 years since those first chefs came to Cakebread to work with local...
Rancho Gordo in Bon Appetit
Lucky us! We made it into the newly revamped Bon Appetit magazine! I love standing in the grocery store check out line with one of my sons and casually leafing...
Some Bad Press for Diana Kennedy and Her Response
The Washington Post food section recently published a weird, bitchy profile of Diana Kennedy. I'm a little torn as I think in general, their food section is one of the...
Rancho Gordo on the New Cooking Channel
We were lucky enough to be filmed for a new show called FoodCrafters with host Aida Mollenkamp on the new Cooking Channel. The people who Food TV, who have seemed...
Media Round Up
A few nice things I may have forgotten to tell you about. Our paper here in Napa had a very nice profile although the photograph would have sent me into...
Greetings from Lovely Morelia
Boy, did I need to get out of town. I flew into Mexico last week for a quick hello to some old pals and to reacquaint myself with the beautiful...