The Grill on the Alley, with a location in the Westlake Promenade - you know, the restaurant with the wall of fire out front - is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The original location opened in 1984 in Beverly Hills, and now there are Grill restaurants here in … [Read more...]
Mother Nature’s Meat – Hearst Ranch Beef at Local Whole Foods Markets
When you bite into a juicy cheeseburger, do you think about the source of the beef? When the cheese is oozing out of the sandwich and the juice drips down your chin, do you wonder about the health of the cattle that gave you this meat? Or how far the harvested beef had to travel … [Read more...]
Red Meat and Friendship
This couple is Jennifer and Greg (it seems I do not have a more recent picture of them than this shot from their September 2004 wedding). They had us over for dinner the other night. They made steak and spinach and salad and scalloped potatoes. They did NOT let us help and kept … [Read more...]