52 Simple Ways to be Healthier in 2019

52 Simple Ways to be Healthier in 2019

It’s a new year and you are full of hope. This is the year you will claim or reclaim your good health! If you have a little feeling of dread in the back of your mind because this same scenario happens every year, have no fear.  Big changes are often daunting and hard...
Recipes for a Holiday Meal

Recipes for a Holiday Meal

Happy holidays everyone! I prepared this meal for eight as part of the fundraiser for The Laguna Foundation. It was a big hit and I’m sure your family and guests will enjoy this meal this holiday season. I served them in order, below, with lots of time in between...
Your Healthy Winter Skin

Your Healthy Winter Skin

Your Healthy Winter Skin Wintertime is notorious for leaving people with dry, chapped skin, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here are some easy tips for healthier skin. In the nutrition world the mantra is: if all else fails, support your liver. Your liver, like...
Jaws: The Hidden Epidemic

Jaws: The Hidden Epidemic

Another interesting program that I am chairing at The Commonwealth Club on Tuesday in San Francisco, based on the book Jaws by Sandra Kahn and the famed Paul Ehrlich. There is a serious hidden epidemic just now being discovered by the public health community. It’s...
Microsurgery Program at The Commonwealth Club

Microsurgery Program at The Commonwealth Club

Join me on Tuesday, November 6th at The Commonwealth Club for a fascinating program on Microsurgery. What is microsurgery?   Reconstruction of the mutilated hand, for example, restoring all fingers and thumbs with toe transplantation. Breast reconstruction after...
Chef’s Dinner with Adobe Road Winery

Chef’s Dinner with Adobe Road Winery

I will be the guest chef at Adobe Road Winery’s Harvest Hike and Food/Wine Tasting on October 14th at the beautiful Famighetti Vineyard in Healdsburg. Caramelized Onion Tart and Rose in the treehouse. A hike through the stunning vineyard. Charcuterie (with a...