Loni Stark
Loni Stark is an artist at Atelier Stark, self-professed foodie, and adventure travel seeker who has a lifelong passion for technology’s impact on business and creativity. She collaborates with Clinton Stark on video projects for Atelier Stark Films. It’s been said her laugh can be heard from San Jose all the way up to the Golden Gate Bridge. She makes no claims to super powers, although sushi is definitely her Kryptonite.
Our backyard gets a pomegranate shrub
A couple of seasons ago, Clint decided to trim one of our bushes near the backyard seat wall because it was getting a little gangly. Perhaps he got overzealous about the project because by the time he was done, there was only a few pathetic little twigs poking out...
Artist Diaries: No risk, no reward
This week, Lee Hartman, my oil painting teacher returned to my Saturday afternoon oil painting classes. In her absence, I realized what a difference she made to my Saturday classes, she changes the mood of the entire class. When she was gone, it just seemed the class wasn't as...
Wine Enthusiast ‘Toast of the Town’ San Francisco
One evening out of every year, San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House lights up with 'Toast of the Town', a gala showcasing local and international wines and some of the Bay Area's most popular and hip restaurants. This year was no exception, wines were pouring and tasty gourmet morsels...
Pebble Beach Food & Wine: Lexus Grand Tasting the ultimate epicurian’s fantasy
Chef Morimoto's pork and red miso dish which showed how less can truly be more. I loved the intensity of flavors and everything on the plate and true purpose.
Urban Gardening: Planting tips and tricks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oNOaJ_2HbA
Now that spring is here, it's time to get planting. For you urban gardeners with tight space, check out my wooden vegetable planter box plans. I'm so happy that its received over 1,200 downloads now from all kinds of places around the world including New Zealand, UK, Australia, Canada,...
Artist Diaries: How to create leaves with visual interest
This week I made more progress on the foreground of my "Lucie Stern Through the Looking Glass" painting by adding in the leaves of a large tree on the left. I really focused on identifying the variations in color and depth in the leaves.
Usually when people start painting the...
Moulin Rouge: Life in Paris is a cabaret
After arriving in Paris on a Friday morning and spending the day in meetings, I decided the only way to cap off the day would be to do something fun and truly Parisian. One simple answer: Moulin Rouge.
I am sure the place with its distinctive windmill and red neon...
Planting tomatoes in a vegetable planter box
This weekend, after finally catching up with various errands including the yearly submission of income tax, I was able to visit our local garden center to pick up some tomato plants for the vegetable planter box on our side yard.
Over 1,300 of you have downloaded the plans so I...
“Play with your food” artichoke and crab salad with strawberry basil vinaigrette
There are few items more fun to eat than the artichoke with its edible leaves that must be plucked with fingers to be eaten. The prize for all this effort? A tender edible heart.
"Play with your food" artichoke and crab salad with strawberry basil vinaigrette is the perfect refreshing...
Michael Chiarello speaks on ‘cooking as a sport’ at Pebble Beach Food & Wine
The foreplay as he likes to refer to it. Michael even goes so far to say it should be sometimes messy, "...you want to be in your food."
