Last weekend I attended the Bay Area chowhound picnic, a foodie potluck set in Tilden Regional Park, in the hills above Berkeley. It was a shame that, having stayed up late preparing my dish and overslept the next morning, I had to rush past the park’s gorgeous scenery to reach the picnic site.
My contribution was […]

Driving between the southern suburbs of San Francisco, where we now live, and our former home of Los Angeles, you must get off the highway and go through the town of Gilroy. This town’s claim to fame can be smelled very clearly: garlic.
So every year, Gilroy holds a garlic festival, a celebration of the […]