Exciting news! I am to be a guest on A Growing Passion, a wonderful garden show hosted by Nan Sterman on San Diego's KPBS station. Nan has gathered a number of "experts" who will show and tell how to preserve the harvest. Should be fun! The show airs Thursday,...
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THANKSGIVING or Le Jour de Merci Donnant 2014
I flew across the pond to Morocco in early November to take care of Dar Zitoun, our family riad, 90 kilometres south of Casablanca. My memoir, Mint Tea and Minarets relates the story of this local landmark which I hadn’t visited in FOUR years. Although Dar...
AUGUST 15, 2014/FIFTY YEARS IN THE US
Of course, this is a momentous date only for me, and for my mother. I just wanted to hare what being an American means to me after 50 years! This piece was first published in the Los Angeles Times, pre-Internet, I believe! AUGUST 15, 2014 An Immigrant’s story...
ALO Magazine/Mint Tea and Minarets
MInt Tea and MInarets and recipes reviewed in http://www.alomagazine.com/culture/cuisine/MoroccanCuisine/ Alo magazine is dedicated to the Middle East and North Africa: “ALO magazine has served as a forum for understanding the Middle Eastern culture and a tool for...
June 2014/Sliding into summer
Photo Michael Pawlentywww.ChefsPress.com Roasted salmon with Borage Yogurt Sauce from the upcoming Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion Chef's Press (Fall 2014) Aside from giving talks about Moroccan cuisine and culture around SD County, I am cooking up a storm for the...
Mint Tea and Minarets finalist in the San Diego Book Awards
It's official! Mint Tea and Minarets: Chronicles from the Kasbah is a finalist in the 2012 San Diego Book Awards. Please send good vibes my way on June 9th, the day the winner is announced! http://www.sdbookawards.com/2012/05/03/2012-finalists My latest book, a memoir...
New title! The Kasbah Chronicles
Fall 2011 Friend and e-marketing expert Chris Pemberton came up with the catchy Kasbah Chronicles during a brainstorming session held over a strawberry waffle smothered in an Everest of whipped cream, specialty of the DipSea Café, in Mill Valley (CA)....
Encore fava beans!
A New Way to Cook with Fava Beans! Leaves included! Some of you may know of my taste for fresh fava beans, that most underrated bean, at least among US cooks. Fava beans always come to mind at this time of the year, especially around Easter and Passover....
Summer 2011 Appearances
SUMMER 2011 AUGUST Please join me in San Diego County for A Taste of Morocco Vista Library 700 Eucalyptus Avenue Vista 92084 (760)643-5100 www.sdcl.org/locations_VS.html Thursday, August 4 6-7:30 PM Recently Added to the Summer...
It’s raining limes! (Again)
I feel so sorry for my citrus trees. The weather has been so mercurial that they can't tell if it's summer, Fall, or spring. We have had several heat waves at the oddest times, which has spurred fruit to ripen prematurely perhaps, and in doing so, splitting...