Sleeping Beauty Disney Castle, Tron-ified Joseph Kosinki, Architect of the New Tron Film ...
Besides the smaller works of Tadao Ando, a firm in Seattle always piques my interest for quirky, formally rigorous, and client centric architecture. Kundig and Olsen straddle the line between liveable/marketable and aesthetic auteurism. If I lived in the American Northwest I would beg them for a job. The firm has quite a few books out: Tom Kundig: Houses - Kundig designs the...
Driven by the mediocrity of my daikon experiment, I started to consider the ubiquitous soba noodle and how it might move beyond the soy, sesame, asian tradition of dressing and serving cold. In Italy, buckwheat pasta is used in a classic regional dish called Pizzocheri (made here by FX Cuisine's curious contributor, one of my most favorite websites ever.) Soba, of course, is...
Julian Roberts Materials from Center for Pattern Design ...
I've been trying to figure out how to use the daikon that has been in my vegetable tray forever. I didn't want to straight up Japanese or Chinese flavors again, so I made this concoction to eat inside toasted Dutch Crunch bread with cheese. Doesn't really need a whole lot of mayo and the daikon is like a replacement for apples. Not the...
We Americans, we subsidize farming, large mechanized swaths of cotton, amber waves of grain. For decades, this business model has supported a standard of life that in comparison to other countries is remarkable. However, this particular commodity paradigm promotes imbalances in the market. Recently we have been gaining awareness how foodstuff practices for corn and wheat that damage our collective health through additives,...
Forgive the faux Pompeiian decor for the sake of delicate italian/cal mediterranean cuisine at this Los Gatos eatery, I Gatti. Octopus with fruit salad with a scoop of rasberry gelato. Not the best pairing of flavors, but refreshing as an amuse. Grilled artichokes with arugula. ...
The Kitchen's specialty, Linguine Nere, with shrimp, slightly spicy tomato sauce and handmade pasta. Fungi Risotto with bits of truffle, basil and fennel. Blue Crab Ravioli I have an aversion to restaurant ravioli in general and although it wasn't bad by any stretch, I wasn't much won over here. The risotto however, was a perfectly well rounded dish, hints of fennel and basil...
Stage 2 Blanket Man flapping to psytrance. ...
Two friends threw down nice sets at this weekend outdoor party. Plus, a killer funky, techy, acidic ride from Willy of Electronarcosis. Two friends threw down nice sets at this weekend outdoor party. Plus, a killer funky, techy, acidic ride from Willy of Electronarcosis. ...
LACA/Comfort interior design. Work on a mixed use condo in Glendora. ...
Beijing sour milk drink (plain yogurt) and crispy pancake with sauce. This tiny, open till wee hours shop in SGV also makes their own pork dumplings which are then boiled. These mainlanders were totally stymied by my ABC ignorance, but their incredulity at my v bad Chinese was utterly charming. ...
Alligator nugget and frog legs fry with cajun tater salad and carrot slaw from the The Grove food court at Miracle Mile. ...
In full glory: foie gras loco moco with dots of Sriracha, a fried quail egg, spam and tasty jus over rice sweet breads with creamed spinach, citrus and capers bone marrow with onion confit and pesto melty juicy pork belly sandwiches with slaw I squeezed in a trip to Animal one of my last nights in LA. Dinner was a heart attack on...
The sky was overcast when we headed out of Long Beach and only broke up when we arrived back to the mainland. Mike and I were worried that the predicted large swell would make us sick. Lucky for us, conditions seemed less bad than the week before and the Island Time powered through no problem. On the way through the channel we saw...
Darn that channel ride. There were 6-8 ft swells on the way over so I got kind of sick on the way to Catalina and ended up skipping my first dive. My buddy was sick too so she ended up skipping the first two. Getting re-buddied up and sorting out weighting was confusing, but underwater conditions were nice and calm near the island. Jenna...
