Paula Panich – Writer, Teacher, Speaker

New Book

The Cook, the Landlord, the Countess and Her Lover

Published by Tryphon Press

Things of this world can be proved, and proved again. That's what you count on when you make your grandmother's chicken soup. Why read this book? It depends on how hungry you are, for history, folklore, places, and most of all, for love.

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From the Blog

Writing

HOME GROUND

My column in the Larchmont Chronicle began in February, 2016 — a regular dispatch from the garden and the page.

Art

What the Ink Knows

At last! My printmaking site: www.whattheinkknows.com — where the press meets the page.

Essays

The Beautiful Young Country — Within Reach at Last

In 1873, Alfred Bierstadt's "Donner Lake from the Summit" was unveiled to public acclaim in San Francisco. Here is my essay for the Foundation for Landscape Studies.

Essays

Three Elizabeths, One George, Hot Cross Buns — and Hampstead Heath

My two years living in London changed everything. This essay, published in Alimentum, came out of that time and lives within me yet.

Writing Life

My Year of Submissions to Literary Magazines

Fueled by frustration and a manuscript of unpublished culinary essays, I spent two years writing letters to agents. Then I thought: The literary magazines! Why not make a game of getting published?

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About Paula Panich

Paula Panich is a New Mexico-based food, garden, and landscape writer and teacher who has contributed to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Gastronomica and other publications. She is author of Cultivating Words: The Guide to Writing about the Plants and Gardens You Love, and other books. Her latest, The Cook, the Landlord, the Countess and Her Lover, is a collection of memoir-ish culinary essays.

Her literary work, including fiction, has been published in the Harvard Review, the North American Review, and on writing disorder, an online literary journal. She has taught writing workshops from the New York Botanical Garden to the Getty Center, and at Boston University and the UCLA Ext. Landscape Architecture Program.

Cultivating Words

The Guide to Writing about the Plants and Gardens You Love

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