News of Morocco and beyond: Washington welcomes a female ambassador from Morocco: http://northafricapost.com/10846-lalla-joumala-the-princess-the-ambassador.html#.WAkSJ2bOD4k.email Mon Dieu! We are ever so hip in Casablanca. A new restaurant on the Corniche, (read...
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Winter 2016 Classes and Presentations
Classes and presentations: A handful of kids participated in the Taste of Morocco at the Newport Beach Central Library. Future chefs aged 5 to 11 learned how make a Moroccan carrot salad, couscous with buttermilk and a watermelon and smoothie....
ANCHORAGE Here I Come! Sept. 23-30, 2016
I am getting excited! My book tour to Alaska is merely 2 weeks away. If you happen to read this post, and if you know people in Anchorage, please feel free to share the following information. Three other San Diego authors are joining me for this first author exchange...
NEW CLASSES, summer 2016
Coming soon, my Alaska schedule for the end of September. BUT: My summer got busier! Le Creuset Outlets is opening a new outlet store in San Clemente, CA. Sunday, July 17, 1 to 3PM Free and open to the public 101 Vista Hermosa Suite 628 San Clemente CA (Next to...
Summer 2016 Morocco news
News of Morocco and beyond: In Casablanca in May 2016? The Fondation ONA, Morocco’s leading cultural foundation, is sponsoring a retrospective of the works of my friend Abderrahman Rahoule, one of Morocco’s leading modern artists and director of the Ecole Supérieure...
Media and reviews 2016
Kitty in the media: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/features/food/explore-flowers-as-food-b99713063z1-377972191.html Alpha Phi magazine: https://issuu.com/alphaphiintl/docs/2016spring/1 Missed the show on Edible Flowers on San Diego's CW...
The Kasbah Chronicles April /May2016
More Chilean adventures I did it! Behind me, Volcan Osorno I wasn’t quite done with a report of my trip to Chile in March. I hit the ground running soon after my return, yet “Northern Patagonia” and “Atacama Desert” still sound so exotic that I can hardly believe I...
The Kasbah Chronicles-March 2016. My travels to Chile
A CHILEAN ADVENTURE! LLamas in the Lago Andino District town of Peulla, CHILE, on the way to Bariloche, Argentina. I would like to set Morocco aside, to tell you about my latest travels. In March, I headed south instead to CHILE, a country that has fascinated me since...
The Kasbah Chronicles February 2016
Musings: Author Celebration makes for strange bedfellows: I was honored to be included in the 50th celebration for local authors at the Central Library recently, but I had to chuckle at the juxtaposition of titles. Nothing against the subjects, however! Some of you...
My interview on Pink Pangea
This lovely travel site bills itself as a travel site for women. Very interesting and informative, and they published an interview about Mint Tea and Minarets: a banquet of Moroccan memories Published on Pink Pangea on December 31, 2015 at this link:...