Professional Chef, Mother, coffee snob, gardener, writer and Berkeleyite. Love: Acme Bread, Tartine, Bar Tartine, Chez Panisse, Boulette's Larder, Frog Hollow stone fruit Four Barrell Coffee, Blue Bottle Coffee Chiapada Diamantina, Cheese Board Pizza, Rechiutti Chocolate, Bi- Rite, 18 Reasons, Plow's crispy breakfast potatoes, Bandol Rose Italy, Alice, Michael, Joel S,Wendy Johnson, my Sister Madeline, my sweet Husband Troy who's motto now is "Shut up and eat it, don't worry about what is in it.......or the line". My daugher Lucia, who loves the market and it's folks as much as I do. Dislike: Greasy food, fast food, GMOs, Sarah Palin, George Bush, Big Ag, fried smell, people who rennovate their homes with no eye to the style or era of the home, Arizona, golf, whiny people, negativity, the news and people who say "no" before they think.