Earlier in the month I was in Los Angeles visiting my good and gracious friend Nancy on  my way to the TED conference.  We toured neighborhoods, shopping streets and farmers markets, enjoying the wonderful weather and delicious food. There seems to be a trend of white table restaurant chefs opening smaller, cozier, simpler spaces.  Jeffrey [...]

I opened Susan Goin’s “Sunday Suppers at Lucques”, a favorite cookbook of mine.  What to do tonight?  Inspired by my recent trip to LA, I defrosted an organic chicken from Iaconne Farms in East Hampton, bought two containers of  English peas – because one is never enough, and a couple of Meyer lemons and kumquats [...]