A Mermaids Lunch

With oceans of great joy and at the request of the many that I have cooked for and with..here's my food blog! In anticipation that this will serve as the foundation from which will evolve into my cookbook -which is way overdue! My cooking career is a story that has several chapters that are filled with adventures that have wild twists and turns, spanning several decades and destinations... much of it magical -with heaping helpings of divine intervention and kitchens full of laughter, travel, rock and roll, and lots and lots of love.

Love is my favorite ingredient. I cook much like I live this life-with passionate abandon- and a strong disdain for rules and regulations and a huge propensity for experimentation and following my instincts and listening to my intuition. I love to seduce groups of people with my cooking. I want people to weep and have mystical experiences when they eat my food (remember that scene in the movie, Like Water for Chocolate ? yeah, like that). As a visual artist , presentation matters - it has to look as delicious as it tastes, sumptuous meals that make people sigh. There's tons of good stories about how I began my love affair with food, I will roll out offerings as this evolves. Oh, and recipes. So Welcome... and come swim into my world a little bit and I will share some of the things I love to cook and where and why and how I made them.