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TYOLD Day 105: Broken Toe-ing the Line

As I was getting out of the shower this morning, my foot slipped and I smashed my fourth toe on my right foot into the metal drain stopper.  Hard. Now, y’all are going “owwww” and I did too. Well, actually I said a variety of curse words that were...

TYOLD Day 104: Trapper Keeper

So the story goes like this… in 1941 a man named John Ehn, who had spent most of his life as a tracker hunting game in the woods, opened a motel in Burbank called “The Old Trapper’s Lodge.”  Thinking he could turn it into a tourist attraction...

TYOLD Day 103: The View from Here

Had dinner tonight for the first time at Yamishiro, a restaurant in LA high in the Hollywood Hills with one of the most killer views in town.  It goes a little something like this:   Yamishiro is in a fairly stunning building built between 1911 and 1914 by two...

TYOLD Day 102: Cupcake Wars

As mentioned, yesterday’s post was supposed to be about a cupcake war between two new cupcake places I went to try.  But I got distracted by food trucks and so I held the battle today. Now, before I begin, I want to reassure you that I did not eat 4 full...

TYOLD Day 101: Food Frenzy Part II

After all the food I ate yesterday, I didn’t intend today to be another food frenzy but that’s just the way it turned out.  And it all started with cupcakes. You might remember a couple of weeks ago I was in a cupcake mood and stopped at a place I had...