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I was at a neighbor’s house for dinner when the girls called. “Mom, the ice in the freezer is melting or something.” I was, of course, convinced that one of them had left the door ajar so didn’t panic. But by the time I got home, not only had the ice melted but all the…

If you’re local to the San Francisco Bay Area, come on over to Pleasanton, to Towne Center Books, on the evening of Wednesday, July 27th. I’ll be speaking about blogs and food and cooking and writing and all that other good stuff that comes together in Digital Dish.

My daughter graduated from 8th grade this week. I was going to take her out to dinner to celebrate and she wanted her dad and stepmom to come too, so we all went together. She chose one of those “hana” type Japanese restaurants, where you pay for the cooking show as well as the food.…

Just wanted to acknowledge that CheapCooking.com (the mother site of this blog) was chosen as a “hot site” by USA Today. Lots of traffic on the main site today, plus 40 new subscribers to the newsletter.

I’m late chiming in… but it’s not from lack of fond memories! I brought my youngest with me and we took BART into Berkeley, adding to her adventure. We wandered up and down the farmer’s market and found a place with a microphone and a bunch of chairs set up but no one around. A…