by Paula Panich
My newest book, The Cook, The Landlord, the Countess and Her Lover, published by Tryphon Press is now available. 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, […]
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
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
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
Fueled by frustration and a manuscript of unpublished culinary essays with recipes, I spent two years writing letters to agents.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
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. We could see water, green forest, the white backbones of mountains, sharp cliffs, glittering ice, bright snow, autumn’s butterscotch spread across rolling hills, pristine clouds, and a robin’s-egg-blue sky from the ridge above […]
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