.Gretchen Giles

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Feb 12, 2014

A People’s Primer for Homemade Pasta

When Leon and I went on our first trip to Italy last year, we accompanied a group of other PBS-loving strangers on a two-week...
Jan 8, 2014

Burrata, Borracho

Saturday morning at 10am: Leon and I are drunk. Don't get me wrong. We're often quite sober at 10am, no matter the day of the...
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Oct 9, 2013

Breath of Life

Dispatch from The Life You Should Have Had: Become an architect, join Apple as an evangelist, transfer to their 3D printing team, quit, do...
Sep 25, 2013

Want Some Figs?

It's 9am on a late summer morning, and Leon and I are out in the backyard woefully examining our garden's fecund bounty. "Hey, there," a...
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Sep 4, 2013

The History of Thinking

Entering Mark Perlman's West County home is like entering a small art gallery. His own large, luscious abstract canvases—clothed in the signature encaustic wax...
Jul 17, 2013

Butter Heaven

And so it was revealed to us that a new restaurant had opened in Healdsburg, but Leon and I had not yet dined there....
Jul 3, 2013

Gone West

The North Coast painter Peter Onstad has a story he likes to tell. It was Nov. 22, 1963, and he and a friend were...
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Jun 26, 2013

Mad for Eames

You know how it is sometimes when Mad Men's plot begins to drag but you're not ready to stop watching though you are ready...
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