Pork sausage and pork butt should not be considered “boujie ingredients,” but welcome to life in California over the past ten-plus years, where basic groceries have somehow become a financial commitment. Back in 2012, California voters passed Prop 12 — essentially giving farm animals more real estate than most West Hollywood studio apartments and promptly …
Month: May 2026
Off-the-Beaten-Path Lake Tahoe — Because the Main Trails Are Basically Disneyland “As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface, I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords.” -Mark Twain Mark Twain had obviously never traveled to Lake Tahoe on a holiday weekend. …
I have spent the last twenty years being deeply suspicious of tofu. Not a casual “meh, not my thing” kind of suspicion, but a full-on side-eye from across the grocery store level of fear. After having non-tumorous breast lumps removed in my twenties (TWENTIES, Wow, so long ago) and watching several women in my family …
Good morrow fellow countrymen! I truly did not mean to walk a 5K today my dear lords and ladies! But when you are adventuring to ye Olde Renaissance Pleasure Faire, well you have to roll with the punches (Or the jousting) If you are not having an adventure even just arriving at the Rennaisance Pleasure …
The rest of the country may be defrosting this week, putting on pretty springtime rompers and celebrating spring but here at 7,000 feet in these mountains of southern California, early May mornings mean putting away all garden goodies I took out on that one rare seventy-degree day. There is a snowstorm looming and that makes …