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New Book: The Cook, the Landlord, the Countess and Her Lover

November 22, 2018 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

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HOME GROUND

June 25, 2016 by Paula Panich

My column in the Larchmont Chronicle began in February, 2016.

Categories: Place/Gardens

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What the Ink Knows

April 15, 2016 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

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The Beautiful Young Country — Within Reach at Last

May 8, 2015 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

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

May 7, 2015 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

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My Year of Submissions to Literary Magazines

October 17, 2014 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Fueled by frustration and a manuscript of unpublished culinary essays with recipes, I spent two years writing letters to agents.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

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M.F.K. Fisher’s Home Ground: Living and Loving the California Landscape

October 1, 2014 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

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Essay: A Map of the Heart 

October 1, 2014 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

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ABOUT PAULA PANICH

Paula Panich is a Los Angeles-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.

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