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Once upon an Easter in London and Paris…

April 15, 2017 by Vickie Lester

This is what Spring looks like at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. I love-love-love this time of year here, but… When I was little girl my father had business in London for a time, so I lived there with my parents and went to a girl’s school that was a tube and a bus ride away from Hampstead to Mill Hill. Now, London is an exciting place to live and I loved my school, but in March […]

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“A Hollywood mystery, a page-turner, a love letter to everything great and horrible about TinselTown.”

April 25, 2016 by Vickie Lester

Anne’s mother emerged from the kitchen carrying two mismatched mugs. The one she handed to Anne was emblazoned with The Rolling Stones’ lips and lolling tongue logo; it reminded Anne of her mother’s infrequent drunken hints that she had once had a “thing” with one of the Stones back in the mists of time. So what Jill said next was surprising. “Friend of your father’s,” she said, nodding at the mug. “You owe him a very big thank you.” […]

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Being of a certain age, the Rolling Stones are my equivalent to Baby Mozart, so sometimes I listen to their music and cook to calm down…dinner for six with Vickie Lester

November 21, 2015 by Vickie Lester

Braised Chicken with Olives, Carrots, and Preserved Lemon: 1 chicken cut into pieces and 4 thighs 8 carrots 1 large onion 2 handfuls of Castlevetrano olives with pits 8 sundried tomatoes in olive oil Enough chicken stock to cover the chicken (2 cups-ish) Enough olive oil to barely coat the bottom of a braising pan (just a smidge or your chicken won’t brown) 1 quarter of a preserved lemon A couple of fresh thyme sprigs 1 tsp. minced rosemary […]

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Happy Mother’s Day from Vickie Lester, an excerpt from It’s in His Kiss

May 17, 2015 by Vickie Lester

While the music played she placed an arm protectively across her abdomen and began to chat unabashedly with the embryo about the normalcy of her background among skyscrapers versus its paternal background of palm trees and freeways, when there was a buzz at the door. It was her mother, in a temper and, unusually for her, without the buffering effect of alcohol betwixt her and the great wide world. Both the personal visit and the state of sobriety were uncommon. […]

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