Explore Your Sense of Place

Paula Panich is a Los Angeles-based expert on the deep cultural connection between people, landscape, shelter, and food.  As a speaker, and teacher, she specializes in storytelling and writing, and in the literature, history and anthropology of landscape and gardens. She is author of Cultivating Words, a book on nonfiction writing, and other books.

Three new books are forthcoming in 2012: The Cook, The Landlord, the Countess & Her Lover, a culinary memoir; a novel, set in 1932 Hollywood, Missing Meg; and Bloody Woman, a memoir set in London.

Her blog, At Play in L.A., is accessible on this site; she is founder and editor of Recipe Memorial, a blog of writing about memory and food, which will re-launch in 2012.