receipts

There is a specific time of year in my orchard here in San Diego—usually late September through early January—when the air hangs heavy with a scent that

There is a specific time in late summer here in San Diego, usually around the last week of August, when the coastal fog burns off by 9:00 AM and the heat

Standing in the middle of my orchard in San Diego during late August, the air smells thick with the scent of fermenting sugar. We just pulled 400 pounds

If you have ever stood under a massive canopy of leaves in a San Diego backyard during late August, you know the specific scent I’m talking about.

You know the feeling. You’re standing in the grocery store aisle, staring at a package of Fig Newtons, and a wave of nostalgia hits you.

You haven’t truly experienced the bounty of a San Diego autumn until you’ve walked through an orchard heavy with the scent of fermenting sugar.

When I walk through my orchard on early summer mornings, the sweet perfume of ripening common figs (Ficus carica) tells me it’s time to start thinking

There’s a particular moment during late summer that I wait for with childlike anticipation every single year. It’s when my fig trees are so

You know that moment when two ingredients come together and create something so magical that it changes how you think about food? That’

I’ll never forget the first time I cracked open a finger lime from my orchard and squeezed out those incredible little pearls. My dinner guest’