Well, here it comes. Rain outside my window. Tomato and grape farmers, picking for hours before the sun even rose, are scrambling to pull the harvest off the vines before the rains can rob the fruit of all the hope they put on their crops. And with the harvest and the rain, autumn [...]

Everything seems open and attainable come summertime. The days grow long, the produce grows unruly, sweetly pungent and psychedelic with color. Life is pregnant with possibility.

Of course, in San Francisco, summer is all about delayed gratification. Much of the season (and in most parts of the city…) we suffer the [...]

My first jelly – featuring the last of the Pink Pearls. A couple sprigs of tarragon, just cause. And a shit ton of sugar, which is not normally my taste, but I aimed for a classic british jelly my first go-round.

Note: for a clear jelly don’t get greedy and squeeze the [...]