There’s not much in this life I enjoy more than strolling and sniffing out the week’s new treasures at an open-air market, careening from one deceivingly innocuous stall to another, only to find each brimming with seasonal jewels from the land and the sea. Market day, for me, is a colorful, remarkable and unabated pageant [...]
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It’s Always Market Day Somewhere
Posted in love, photography, travel, tagged community, farmer's market, france, local, market day, produce, seasonal on October 6, 2011 | 236 Comments »
Tomales Bay Oysters
Posted in seafood, travel, tagged hog island oyster, oysters, the marshall store, tomales bay on May 15, 2011 | 49 Comments »
Isak Dinesen once wrote, “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea”. Besides penning the novel, which later, was adapted into my all-time favorite movie, I’m convinced she not only was referring to the healing powers of the salty sea, but to the bewitching, briny, exquisite creatures laying well below it. [...]
10 Reasons To Visit Paris in the Winter
Posted in love, travel, tagged christmas, paris, winter on January 4, 2011 | 109 Comments »
Dear Christmas in Paris, Why did you have to end? We were SO good together. Please write back. I miss you. Love, Hopeless in California. I’ve been reciting this love letter in my head, day and night, ever since we returned home from our trip. The City of Light is undeniably magical anytime of the [...]
