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About Me

i'm twenty eight. married to a lovely girl, cori. i have a cat, hermione. and, a dog, oliver. i cook. i enjoy sandwiches. i love to travel. espresso & marca in the morning with toast. i consider myself a neat freak, also a workaholic. i have many ocd qualities. atleti is my team. i go to a few good shows and enjoy dancing. i like clothes, hats, jackets, hair product

My Interests

cooking, travel, cleaning, soccer, video games, music, restaurants, wines, beers, tapas, sushi, spain, road trips, picnics, parks, people watching, small cars

Music:

things like: los planetas, la costa brava, deluxe, lori meyers, la habitacion roja, la buena vida, love of lesbian, belle and sebastian, of montreal, morrissey, migala, tristeza, danielson, sufjan stevens, kraftwerk, joy division, entre rios, ellos, guided by voices, dears, grupo de expertos solynieve, sidonie, nueva vulcano, new pornographers...

Movies:

i have many favorites.

Television:

scrubs, spongebob, lost, no reservations, atlÃ©tico de madrid matches, the office, tv5, little britain, ramsay...

Books:

i read a lot of cookbooks

Heroes:

petrini, waters, keller, ferra, rodriguez

My Blog

happenings

Well. Slow Food went well. The dinner sold out. I am very happy and excited of the progress that has come from this new 'adventure'. I am now a Slow Food member which is great as well. The entire Slow...
Posted by luis on Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:16:00 PST

Slow Food

the restaurant where i am executive chef is hosting a slow food dinner. if anyone is interested in making it down to the event on august 28th the following link will take you to the slowfoodnation.org...
Posted by luis on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:51:00 PST

Article in the SF Chronicle

This article features my first quotes!! And! it was by Janet Fletcher!http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/20 08/07/29/FDNP11R7VE.DTL...
Posted by luis on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:42:00 PST

my vacation

cori and i finished purchasing our travel guides for this years' european journey. i was able to receive three weeks off from work and that'll give enough time to wonder and have a relaxed time. the p...
Posted by luis on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:18:00 PST

this week

new planetas album. new deluxe album. and now,seeing morrissey on tuesday. that will be awesome!
Posted by luis on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:40:00 PST

planetas album info

my favorite band of all time "los planetas" just announced a delay for their new record. they originally planned for a january release and now it's being pushed to april. why? anyways, found two new v...
Posted by luis on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:42:00 PST

my adventures in paris

so cori and i are still in paris. today we checked into the 4th hotel of our stay here. there have been massive delays due to the terrorist attack plans london heathrow airport. we extended our stay h...
Posted by luis on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:00:00 PST

my journey north

now, living in the bay area gives you privileges. napa is extremely close. whenever cori and i go there we end up doing a lot of driving through the hills and whatnot. it's hard to take it all in. onl...
Posted by luis on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:42:00 PST

my discoveries

it's been a few months since the last 'blog'. it's time to write in here... a lot has happened in these few months. we will see a new 'los planetas' release this fall. which i am extremely excited abo...
Posted by luis on Mon, 29 May 2006 01:42:00 PST

my new year

the new year. a lot happened in 2005. both good and bad. in february we sold our vw golf and bought a piaggio lt150. initially everything went well... 60-70 mpg was awesome, and who could beat 9-10 do...
Posted by luis on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 02:06:00 PST