The Lettuce That Ate New York—and the World: Part II

Posted on November 1, 2014 by garyedf

by Isaac Cronin

By the time I got around to contacting Andrea Crawford early in 1987, she was working with the cream of the new second wave of Los Angeles restaurants (the first wave—La Toque and Ma Maison—having closed; Michael’s was still open), and the ones she didn’t supply wanted her product. Continue reading →

The Lettuce That Ate New York—and the World: Part I

Posted on October 24, 2014 by garyedf

by Isaac Cronin

Walking toward me, a towheaded two-year-old cherub boy balanced on her hip, was a tall, angular blonde woman wearing a nautical, blue-striped long sleeve T-shirt, khaki shorts, a floppy straw sun hat and rubber boots … the quintessential French California mash-up look.
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