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Check out today's San Diego Union-Tribune for my Home & Garden story on potter Pierre Bounaud. He's a scientist, so naturally he's drawn to the chemistry of glazes and the process of creating them. The results are truly creative. I focused on his dinnerware (restaurants should be grabbing these up!), but last fall I bought a few of his vases and love their look.
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Do you know someone who's lost their senses of taste and smell due to Covid? I just wrote a story for the San Diego Union-Tribune about a wonderful (FREE) little downloadable cookbook called Taste & Flavour by two chefs in England who have used science to develop delicious recipes that focus on visual stimulants and umami to stimulate taste buds and receptors. Simple, unique ingredient combos that won me over.
I'm thrilled! My Lotusland story got a callout/boost from the Los Angeles Times!
Photo courtesy of Lotusland
I don’t usually write about destinations I actually haven’t been to, so when my editor at the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Home & Garden section asked me if I would write about Lotusland in Montecito near Santa Barbara, we had to come up with a way to frame it that made it relevant to San Diego readers who also may not be ready yet to travel. What I decided was to offer it as inspiration to local home gardeners—and I was able to find some San Diegans who had been there and could speak to that. A little history of this remarkable place, descriptions of some of the more than 20 unique gardens, and its commitment to conservation rounded it out. I can’t wait now to visit it myself! Here’s the story!
Unwilling to go down the rabbit hole of furniture shopping? Fernish is one of several "premium furniture rental" ecommerce businesses catering mostly to young, peripatetic professionals and it's just launched into the San Diego market. Here's my story on it today for the San Diego Union-Tribune's Home & Garden section.
Photo courtesy of Fernish
A puppy and a pothos plant are not a good mix, especially because that plant and many others are toxic.
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Got dogs and/or cats and houseplants or floral bouquets? Make sure you're not inadvertently putting them in danger. This has long been a big concern of mine. Years ago I wrote a similar story but on outdoor plants for Edible San Diego. New, updated sources appear here. My new story in today's San Diego Union-Tribune:
