Category Archives: Travel

Great day for a walk

Spring is here. Weather was glorious today in Berkeley, so I took a walk up Buena Vista Way. Architect Bernard Maybeck worked his magic along this steep street after the Great Berkeley Fire of 1923 wiped out 600 buildings, including most of his domestic masterpieces.

Walk in Berkeley
Maybeck build this one for his Continue reading

Cooking with Jay

Since my vegetarian wife is in Alaska visiting our vegetarian son, I can get away with smelling up the kitchen at home frying flesh. And tonight I was in the mood for a fritura to rekindle memories of eating in Spain.

Smelt on the left, anchovies to the right. You get about this many for a dollar Continue reading