by Paula Panich
My newest book, The Cook, The Landlord, the Countess and Her Lover, published by Tryphon Press is now available.
Categories: Literary Essays/Book Reviews • Tags: Paula Panich
by Paula Panich
My column in the Larchmont Chronicle began in February, 2016.
Categories: Place/Gardens
by Paula Panich
At last! My printmaking site: www.whattheinkknows.com
Categories: Writing/Artmaking • Tags: contemporary art, monotype, printmaking, takach press. charbonnel ink, what the ink knows
by Paula Panich
My two years living in London changed everything. This was before you could listen to the BBC on NPR or online. The BBC plus the British Library plus the Hampstead Heath plus all the Nineteenth Century novels I hadn’t read — well, opened up my mind and heart. This essay came out of that time, […]
Categories: Food • Tags: countess of kent, Elizabeth, Elizabeth David, Elizabeth I, England, George Orwell, Hampstead Heath, hot cross buns, London, sweet buns
by Paula Panich
A bitter wind had blown somewhere else that morning, and sun bounced off remnant glaciers hanging in the valleys across Kachemak Bay.
Categories: Place/Gardens • Tags: Alaska, Homer Alaska, Ilana Panich-Linsman, Kachemak Bay, literary essays, natural world, nature, Pacific Horticulture, Pacific Horticulture Magazine, the Literary Gardener
by Paula Panich
Pectin makes it all possible. Pectin is one of God’s best ideas, purveyed in fruity packages. No question: God intended us to have jellies and jams and marmalade. This is why I take my marmalade straight, by the spoonful . . .
Categories: Food • Tags: 17th century cookbooks, countess of kent, culinary essays, english food history, english marmalade, food essays, food history, food writers, food writing, frank cooper's marmalade, marmalade, Paula Panich, pectin, the Literary Gardener, the writing disorder
by Paula Panich
NB: Reprinted (so to speak) from the Summer 2013 Eden, the quarterly journal of California Garden and Landscape History Society, www.cglhs.org. Photo: Staci Valentine, from: David Mas Masumoto, Marcy Masumoto, and Nikiko Masumoto, The Perfect Peach: Recipes and Stories from the Masumoto Family Farm (10 Speed Press, 2013) The Perfection of the Peach: An Interview with Mas […]
Categories: Food • Tags: California organic farming, Mas Masumoto, organic farming, peaches
by Paula Panich
He’s often compared to Thoreau and John Muir. Words describe him: scientist, professor, environmentalist, forester, ecologist. But his writing — and his astonishing ideas — rise above all description. Aldo Leopold was born in Iowa in 1887 and died fighting a grass fire on a neighboring farm, in Wisconsin. 1948. He had just become an […]
Categories: Mountain Stories • Tags: Aldo Leopold, Also Leopold Nature Center, ecology, environmentalist, Sand Country Almanac, Thinking Like a Mountain, Wisconsin
by Paula Panich
John Fowles, the great English novelist, published, in 1979, a complicated essay called “The Tree.” It was reissued in 2010, in this country anyway, with an introduction by Barry Lopez. I will refer to it as The Tree, as it is a pretty little book. If you don’t recall the novels of John Fowles, you […]
Categories: Literary Essays/Book Reviews • Tags: California Garden and Landscape History Society, John Fowles, San Jacinto Mountains, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Tree
by Paula Panich
In 1873, this powerful painting by Alfred Bierstadt, “Donner Lake from the Summit,” was unveiled to public acclaim in San Francisco. Here’s my essay, for the Foundation for Landscape Studies, telling the tale of how this painting came to be. http://www.foundationforlandscapestudies.org/blog_preview/essay_by_paula_panich.php
Categories: Place/Gardens • Tags: Alfred Bierstadt, Colis P. Huntington, Donner Lake, Donner Lake from the Summit, LACMA, Southern Pacific Railroad
by Paula Panich
Fueled by frustration and a manuscript of unpublished culinary essays with recipes, I spent two years writing letters to agents. Silence. Only one wrote back with regrets: She hadn’t heard of M.F.K. Fisher. Fit to be tied, I swore I’d never write again. Then I thought: The literary magazines! Why not make a game of getting published? […]
Categories: Writing/Artmaking
by Paula Panich
A Recent Talk to the Piedmont, Calif. Garden Club: My husband said just as we were seated in a restaurant: I heard someone on NPR talking about M.F.K Fisher. He had that slightly surprised look he gets when there’s news from my world that didn’t come from me. Yes – he said – the guy […]
Categories: Place/Gardens • Tags: California, California cuisine, California landscape, culinary essays, culinary writers, Food, food essays, food writing, Hemet, literary nonfiction, MFK Fisher, Paula Panich, Piedmont Garden Club, Southern California Mountains, St. Helena, the Literary Gardener