Playing With My Food ~
A journal about food, thought, travel, and life; by Chef & Raconteur Chaz French.

When “Vegan” isn’t…

Okay, we all know I'm not a vegan, not by any stretch of the imagination.  But I think we all know that I believe food should be what it purports to be.  Some vegans in Los Angeles think that too and they've done some serious investigating of local … [Continue reading]

Bumpy moves

So much for a smooth transistion from one host to another, there have been some bumps in the road, and the site may look funky until they're sorted. Some customization was lost in the transition, and since I've been having serious issues with my RSS … [Continue reading]

My Times

Anyone who’s spent more than a couple of minutes talking to me will walk away knowing two things; I love Los Angeles and I miss my home greatly. No I wasn’t born there, nor did I grow up there. I moved there 5 days after I turned 20, having fallen … [Continue reading]

Dear Neighbor…

A note I'm very close to putting on my neighbor's door. Dear Neighbor, Hi, we haven't met, but we've heard each other. Let me introduce myself, my name is Charles and when I was fresh out of high school I went to the TreBas school of audio … [Continue reading]

I just felt the need to share this…

From RichardDawkins.net … [Continue reading]

TD Bank’s unfortunate sign of the times.

"CON" TD Bank in Brooklyn Heights, NY. Taken Feb 16, 2009 … [Continue reading]

Auspicious Beginnings

On the first of January 2009 I found myself searching an external hard drive trying to find a photo, at first I couldn't find the folder and was starting to panic, after a bit of digging I found the folder but not the photo... While searching … [Continue reading]

Happy New Year

I'm not one for making resolutions, in fact I've only ever kept one, the one where I resolved to never make another New Year's Resolution (ha ha ha, no I'm serious, it's been about 15 years). That doesn't mean I'm not interested in change or … [Continue reading]

It’s written in the sand…

Happy Thanksgiving to EVERYONE! Today I did a SCUBA dive, I swam with fishes, I chased a pufferfish trying to get it to blow up, I saw a 4ft Moray Eel, its mouth opened wide, I saw thousands upon thousands of tropical fish, I walked a beach, I saw … [Continue reading]

Music on the beach

Hola Amigos! … [Continue reading]