We return, after I’ve caught up with some of the sleep I lost at Toolbox, to Mediterranean adventures. Saturday was the worst day. Kathy’s COVID was peaking, and her ribs were aching and she was coughing continually, and I was a long way off and unable to help. I was exhausted and stressed and pretty […]

Taos Toolbox 2023 started tonight, and Nancy Kress and I met our 18 new colleagues whose work will be our work for the next two weeks. But that’s not who we see in this photograph. This is the class for 2022, or most of it. Because they’re having a reunion right now, just as the […]

Tonight’s little piece of heaven: a Chilean sea bass filet baked with a pesto crust, and served up with a beurre blanc sauce.

Leaving the Bougainville in the harbor of Porto Empedocle, we headed up the hill to Agrigento, which in its heyday was known as Akragas, after one of the rivers that ran past the town. In Akragas’ glory years in the 5th Century BCE, the city gobbled its neighbors, controlled the middle section of Sicily, held […]