YOU!  Yeah, you.  I'm thrilled to announce that I have just sold my first cookbook -

DIY Kitchen: 25 Edible Crafts for the Weekend Warrior
Make - Don’t Buy - Olives, Ketchup, Cheese, Salumi, Crackers, Dressings, and More

To Ten Speed Press who, so far, is awesome.   Should I send out a birth announcement or something?  I'm very excited about this.  More to come as this develops.

It's true.  We are.  Just ask any of them.  And to celebrate my laziness, I'm going to post several month's worth of what I've been working on below.

 I have two upcoming stories in the Feb. ish of San Francisco Magazine - one a travel piece on totally interesting Sonora, and one profile of Yelp that is sure to garner me a one-star review by their devoted audience of regular site users.

Naughty, naughty me.  I have completely forgotten to introduce you to my new mistress - CheapBastardSF.com.  Yup, you guessed it. This baby gives updates and supplmental info on the greatest guide book for penny-pinching in San Francisco.  Read it, learn, or school me.

So, I wrote this story recently for the Chron'sFood section on play cafes.  It doesn't really have much to do with me or the piece that I wrote, but the paper's readers started a holy blog war about taking children to restaurant both here (on the comments page below the story online) and on the Chron's parenting blog, The Poop.  I had no idea this was such a hot button issue.  I feel honored to have been the catalyst in such a fervent debate.  Meow!  Let the battle of the breeders versus the non-breeders rage on...

Can you smell the scorch of the presses? The Cheap Bastard's Guide to San Francisco is out and about and demanding your attention. It's the tightwad's city guide that all the movie stars are talking about! Check it out and give me your honest - as long as it's positive - opinion. PS: Please buy 742 copies.

..This time on The Ditty Bops - a cute and green girl band. 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/07/31/DDA1R9PQR1.DTL&type=printable

Nope, not my uterus....just the magazine.

This month's ish has a story I wrote on making your own baby food.  In addition, Emmett and I are featured on the Contributor's page - though in truth he did very little of the writing. 

My story on MobMov, the mobile guerrila drive-in, is on the front page of the Chronicle for July 30, 2007:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/30/DDAIR9BH32.DTL

check it - Emmett and I are on RookieMoms.com, schmearing our mugs all over the scene....

 http://www.rookiemoms.com/cheap-week-in-san-francisco/

Try your own hand at my Nosebleed Mustard or Rumkirschen and tell me what you think.

My genius husband suggested that I add a roster of recipes to my website, and this is one of those rare moments in our relationship where I listened to him. Go figure! I've got four on there now - the very same recipes that are in my book proposal for The DIY Kitchen: Edible Crafts for Do-It-Yourselfers. Yum it up on me.