Tweet If you live in the peninsula region of the Bay Area,  real estate is at a premium.  Unless you’re blessed with a house with an acre of orchards and rose gardens, you’re probably wishing you had your own back yard to stroll or relax in, especially now that the weather is turning from “Where’s
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Mind-blowing Persian food with a distinctly Californian twist in cuisine style and presentation is exactly what will keep you trapped and glued to your seat (or bar stool in my case) at Zaré at Fly Trap in San Francisco.

The appetizer is so unforgettable; the sapidity so right on the mark that it’s made this year’s 100 Things to Try Before You Die list

Tweet I’m a self-confessed Anglophile.  I travel to London frequently for work or play, but my fascination with all things English has more to do with history and tradition than anything else.  As a high school student, I was enthralled with the story of Henry VIII and his disposable wives.  As I matured and buried
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Mario Lopez arrived alone, with no posse, publicist or security. In fact, I was waiting with Book Passage staff at the normal front entrance at Book Passage in the Ferry Building and he arrived from the back. He simply walked in, and charmingly said hello to those who had lined up outside for his book signing. I was pretty much used to celebrities arriving with a little bit more buzz and fanfare and was pleasantly pleased at his calm demeanor. He greeted the crowd and before he took a seat, he posed for photographs.

The gates to the Castello di Amorossa seemed normal enough, until you drive up the hill and witness the spectacular vignette of a 12th century medieval castle set in “Tuscany”, complete with orderly rows of grapevines and cypress trees. If I wasn’t sober at 11am, I could have sworn I was looking out of the walls of San Gimignano.

It was a match made in literary heaven and when you hold, see and read the finished product in your hand, you would never have imagined that the author and her illustrator were meeting for the first time. That was just one of many interesting facts I gathered from a Thursday afternoon luncheon with new author Maya Soetoro-Ng and her illustrator Yuyi Morales.

Tweet Whoever said time stood still must have not been having a life.    Last night while I was processing some photographs taken over the weekend with my family, I realized that as this point in my Boomer life, I’m much more a spectator than a participant.  Behind my camera’s lens,  I’m capturing moments that are
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Tweet Background Story  by Lulu del Rosario:  Like some bloggers, my first blog began as a way to journal my family’s life events and share it with the world.  Mine started while my oldest daughter was preparing for her wedding in 2004.  Blogging had already been a buzz word and I was an early adopter. 
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Tweet The Fourth Annual Pebble Beach Food & Wine (April 28 – May 1, 2011 ) is positioned to continue its reign as the signature West Coast culinary event with such celebrity chefs as Tom Colicchio, Christopher Kostow , Michel Richard, Gary Danko, Tyler Florence, Iron Chef Morimoto, Charlie Trotter, Jacques Pepin, Rick Tramonto, Nancy
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Tweet Out and About online and by correspondence:  Lulu del Rosario I love photography and the different facets of the craft as seen by the styles of the photographers I’ve been coming in contact with.  Recently, I’ve been enjoying the young and fresh eyes of the photographer featured in this article.  Gabrielle Revere. Our LA
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