Last night we stopped by Didi Riese for dessert. Didi Riese is in Westwood Village, near the Bruin Theater. The order lines are long, especially on a Friday night, but it's worth the wait. The cookies are fresh; you see them making them right there. Didi Riese has a variety of cookies (chocolate chip with walnuts; white chocoloate chip with macadamia, etc) but their chocolate chip cookies are famous. And their ice cream sandwich is also famous; it's made up of two cookies of your choice with a thick slab of ice cream in the middle.
Prices: 3 fairly large cookies for a dollar; a huge ice cream sandwich for $1.50; a dozen cookies for $3.75.
Yes - a real bargain, which accounts for the long - very long - order line.
So, what were we doing in Westwood Village last night? Lauren went to the UCLA Basketball game - apparently UCLA won by 50. I saw the movie, Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney. It was good. Described as a legal thriller, the movie deals with a huge fertilizer corporation and a huge legal firm, and some people trying to get justice for the cancer and illnesses caused by the chemicals.
The movie held my attention although I note that some reviewers say the movie was slow. I didn't find it slow; I enjoyed it.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
DIDI RIESE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES!
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books..
Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized.
Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines.
She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.
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