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Category: Kitchen Muse

  • Sexy Knife

    The Miyabi Kaizen 5000 DP, 34183-163 is my new favorite dinner date. Even these obsequious i.d. numbers are sexy to me now. While this 6” chef’s knife’s sliding, gliding micro carbonate steel blade and sleek handle has been sitting quietly in its encased bed for months waiting for the chef de la maison to withdraw…

  • This September I Remember: Summer’s Gifts for Fall

    SEPTEMBER APPLES September temperatures in Malibu climbed into the low nineties. Beach visitors flocked to Malibu via PCH which fed thousands to our surf.  One weekend more than 5000 participants biked, swam and ran in the Malibu triathalon. Another weekend more than 550,000 beach worshipers were accounted for. Come late September weekday beach activity proves…

  • Chai

    Chill Baby and Drink Hot Chai   We in America drink iced chai tea as a great pick me up and refreshment. It doesn’t seem that long ago when this mysterious beverage showed up in our local haunts. I  first experienced it at Starbucks, and then at Wild Oats in a bottle. I would down…