Referral Friday is an ongoing series inspired by John Jantsch’s Make-a-Referral Week. For more about that, and loads more referrals for everything from cobblers to coaches to gee-tar teachers, start here. Pass it on, baby! I’ve mostly given up on giving gifts for the holiday season. Personally, I have everything I need, and most of [...]
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Referral Friday is an ongoing series inspired by John Jantsch’s Make-a-Referral Week. For more about that, and loads more referrals for everything from cobblers to coaches to gee-tar teachers, start here. Pass it on, baby! I have been anticipating this day for years now. Not because I can’t get my own mitts on delicious Flan [...]
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Clearing my (psychic) clutter, Day 11: Cafe du Village, and the beauty of disposable goods as reward
I was hit by the blow of the decade last week: my beloved Café du Village, delicious, unpretentious and relatively reasonably-priced, indoor-outdoor French eatery on famed (and a wee too twee, but oh, well) Larchmont Boulevard, was getting the boot by the building’s owners. Or rather, they weren’t exactly, but raising the rent 100% overnight [...]
Referral Friday is an ongoing series inspired by John Jantsch’s Make-a-Referral Week. For more about that, and loads more referrals for everything from cobblers to coaches to gee-tar teachers, start here. Pass it on, baby! Funny that until I’d actually typed out the name of my new-favorite local eatery here in the Silver Lake neighborhood [...]
Referral Friday is an ongoing series inspired by John Jantsch’s Make-a-Referral Week. For more about that, and loads more referrals for everything from cobblers to coaches to gee-tar teachers, start here. Pass it on, baby! One thing that drives me batty about Los Angeles is the paucity of excellent, low-key, non-gross hangs for a nice-sized [...]
Referral Friday is part of an ongoing series inspired by John Jantsch’s Make-a-Referral Week. For more about that, and loads more referrals for everything from cobblers to coaches to gee-tar teachers, start here. Pass it on, baby! For the first two and a half years I was on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, I was very, [...]
Referral Friday is part of an ongoing series inspired by John Jantsch’s Make-a-Referral Week. For more about that, and loads more referrals for everything from cobblers to coaches to gee-tar teachers, start here. Pass it on, baby! Yes, we have Peet’s here in Los Angeles. We also have nearly two outposts of Chicago-based Intelligentsia, a [...]
Referral Friday is part of an ongoing series inspired by John Jantsch’s Make-a-Referral Week. For more about that, and loads more referrals for everything from cobblers to coaches to gee-tar teachers, start here. Pass it on, baby! I’d always suspected Los Angeles got shortchanged in the espresso department, and it took an extended trip to [...]
Two of the greatest things I ever got out of any relationship came from my marriage: an introduction to honest-to-God, Italian-American “gravy”, as my former in-laws called it, (or “red lead” as Tony Soprano calls it) and to the Chicago-style giardinera that goes so perfectly with it. For the uninitiated, giardinera (pronounced “jar’-din-AIR” if you’re [...]
