Restaurants

  • Summer In Spain Part 2

    The morning sun shining through the small windows at the top of the room served as a wake-up call for my first day. I was still wrapped in the blanket someone had laid on me just four hours ago. Sleep… Continue reading

    Summer In Spain Part 2
  • Summer in Spain Part 1

    After three years of cooking in Manhattan I was done. Burned out by seventy to eighty hour work weeks, the World Trade Center disaster and a relationship destroyed by tragedy. Not really knowing what to do, I just went home,… Continue reading

    Summer in Spain Part 1
  • 1999 in New York City

    My first year cooking in New York City was one of the hardest years of my life. In three years I went from literally playing hockey on Foxen Canyon Road in Sisquoc with a flattened soda can, to riding on… Continue reading

    1999 in New York City