This past weekend we celebrated Mr. Eat a Duck I Must’s birthday in parts. On Friday, after his extremely-classy-blind-Popeye’s-VS-Harold’s-fried-chicken-challenge dinner, I presented him with his first gift- the Farnsworth House from the Lego Architecture series.  We had watched a documentary on the Farnsworth House earlier this year and were immediately fascinated by it.  We are far [...]

When Dan isn’t teaching us something about photography, Jared is teaching Dan something about cooking… and I just eat. What happens when the stars align and the rare of occurrence of special visitors combined with moments of culinary inspiration come to transpire?  Why, Jared’s fall menu, of course!  We were so excited to host our [...]

A few days after we arrived in LA, Jared and I had an enormous fight and decided to spend the rest of our “business” trip separately.  KIDDING!  Actually, Jared was joining up with our friend Dan Chen (Chennergy.com) in Tokyo to help photograph a couple weddings.  Even though I desperately wanted to go as well, [...]

Several weeks ago, Jared and I (and Baby Duck, too!) went on a business trip of sorts.  And as you know I like to name all of our vacations, we’ll call this ZSPLIT as we ended up parting a few days into our trip.  So our little family of three hopped on a flight to [...]

Last year, we failed miserably at maintaining a thriving rooftop garden.  We gave it the good old college try, even attempting to grow everything from seeds.  We have some idea as to why our zucchini, squash, and heirloom tomatoes never bore any fruit.  Perhaps it was the harsh winds coming from the lake.  Or we’d [...]