Jenn Garbee

If you haven't tasted this year's stone fruit crop -- peaches, apricots, any of them -- you must. It really is some of the best we've tasted in years. And an open invitation to make jam. A requirement, actually, when you finally resign yourself to the reality that you cannot......

If you are a baker or have even the slightest of crème brûlée aspirations, you really need to get over to The Gourmandise School in Santa Monica. They are currently selling 4 ounces of vanilla beans -- about 35 whole pods -- for $6. No, that is not a typo......

La Tartine Gourmande, by Boston-based food writer, blogger and photographer Béatrice Peltre, was released earlier this year, but that recipe for apricot tartlets with honey, almonds and olive oil looks pretty perfect for summer. And heaven knows we could all use a quick raspberry-lime-coconut custard recipe right about now (get......

John T. Edge is not the young, Hipstamatic-driven author we expected would write The Truck Food Cookbook, especially as there are already several food truck-related cookbooks out there. But short of perhaps Jane and Michael Stern, Edge is exactly the sort of old-school journalist we'd hoped would explore the California......

Last we checked in with Andrew Steiner of Andrew's Cheese Shop, he was telling us that, like farmers' market produce, soft cheeses in particular are "seasonal" -- and that we were in the middle of the wrong season (it was January). Now that we're in the middle of the right......

Summer beer books are a lot like summer movies. Fun, if not always a Utopias sort of memorable moment. But if you have ever done, or maybe still do, crazy things like keg stands when the summer days (and subtitles) get longer, the just-released Beer Awesomeness: A Champion's Guide to......

Whenever another pot cookbook lands on our desk, as The Official High Official Times Cannabis Cookbook recently did, we try to look at it from an unbiased reviewer's perspective -- but usually decide the publisher was likely stoned when they accepted the book proposal. The recipes tend to be eerily......

If you've never heard of local candy maker David Klein, it's likely because the inventor of the Jelly Belly sold the rights to the formula trademark* a few unfortunate years too soon -- perhaps not surprising for a guy who signs emails with dangling consonants ("thankssssssssssss"), talks like he is......

For the second installment of our series on cooking with farmers, farm stand workers, farm hands and anyone else regularly heading home with piles of fantastic produce, we bring you a recipe for a great cornbread -- made with stone-ground polenta. We (literally) bumped into it last week in the......

If you are in the market for backyard guinea fowl -- and really, who isn't? -- Windrose Farm has about 15 that need a new home. The pros: They're free and hilariously cute when running at frenetic speeds around the farm (or in your backyard). And as Bill Spencer of......