Monday, December 15, 2008

A bit of local Chinese restaurant history

Spotted over at Heckasac was this link to a new KXJZ series by Elaine Corn detailing the many restaurants along Broadway. In addition to providing the culinary rundown, the stories of these restaurants, and the diverse communities that produce them, are some interesting local history that deserves more attention:

http://www.capradio.org/articles/articledetail.aspx?articleid=5940

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Holiday time is book signing time


I have a book signing for Then and Now: Sacramento coming up this Saturday, December 13.

The signing is at Ivy House, 5601 H Street, in East Sacramento. It starts at 1:00 PM, Saturday December 13, and if it ends up like previous signing events, I will give a brief presentation on local history that will hopefully turn into an open discussion and sharing of local history stories by the audience. Personally, I think that my new book would make a great (and relatively inexpensive) holiday gift for anyone in town, but I do admit to a certain amount of bias on that subject. I hope some of you reading this can make it.