Sunday, January 30, 2011

LEON PARKER: ABOVE AND BELOW

There was a time in my life that I dreamt, slept and ate Parker; Alfred Desio had us performing tap routines to three of his pieces. Parker is one of my lost on a desert island musicians. Come to find out he's floating along here somewhere in France.



Above and Below
CD
Released November 15, 1994
Sony Label

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

FOOD: SUNDAY SUPPERS AT LUQUES

(re-read) Suzanne Goins is the chef-owner of Lucques, a Los Angeles restaurant noted for its Sunday Supper meals. I knew nothing about Suzanne the first time I went to one of her Sunday Suppers, only, I was home from France and missing good lucques - so I went.

Hardcover, 416 pages
by Suzanne Goins with Teri Gelber
Published by Knopf, November, 2005
In English