If everything in my organic garden just froze overnight, then apparently it must be the first day of fall here in the mountains of Southern California. Here at 7,000 feet, under the Jeffrey pines, no, we don’t mark the beginning of autumn by Starbucks offering Pumpkin Spiced Latte to every girl named Taylor in UGG …
Here you can find me on vacation somewhere in a creek in the High Sierra, explaining to my dog that this is what freedom looks like. To me, this is vacation: a lazy afternoon sitting in an icy mountain creek, tossing handfuls of Nashville Hot Trail Mix at my face while my dog and the …
Now that it’s finally October and I’m no longer afraid to turn on the oven and accidentally heat our entire mountain cabin to the temperature of Palm Springs in July, you better believe the slow-roasted autumn favorites are back. And right near the top of that list is Veal Bolognese—rich, slow-simmered, tomatoey Italian comfort food …
Cornbread is one of those foods that somehow turns into a full-blown personality debate depending on where you’re standing in the country. From the Deep South to Kansas City to Texas and yes, even here where I live in Southern California—and everywhere in between that takes barbecue seriously—everyone has an opinion on what the best …
Is there actually a better way to spend your birthday week than cold plunging into a freezing Eastern Sierra lake after a brutal uphill hike? This past late August, I decided to “celebrate” turning forty-six years young and still adventurous—even if a few of my body parts have begun submitting formal complaints—by camping in the …