Washington Cooks: Physicist has a way with a wok
19.01.10
His son Zachary, 6, is playing with space shuttle models at the kitchen island, but that's not the trigger. Cheng goes about the process as if he were in a culinary lab: tossing sauteed vegetables in a pan, adding dashes from among a dozen bottles on the counter to create a noodle sauce. He's got moves that are neither flashy nor fast. He keeps things in order and has committed a repertoire of his own recipes to memory.
The 45-year-old husband and father of two enjoys his role as family chef and procurer of foodstuffs, which he brings home like trophies from his travels as a consultant. His wife, Tamar, is okay with that. She shops and does the simple "kid" dishes for their son and their 8-year-old daughter, Collette.
"Ed is a very can-do person," she says. "He is measured and thoughtful, and never intimidated by what he might not know. Ed will figure out what needs to happen and give it a try."
Quick to punctuate his wife's praise, Cheng reduces his efforts to a basic formula: "I cook because I like to eat."
Source: Washington Post
"A classic, but remodeled"
02.02.10
Stephanie and David Lawrence have owned their Black Butte Ranch home for a decade, but they were ready for a change. They wanted to expand and remodel their 1970s-era home to accommodate their growing extended family, which includes two young grandchildren, and another one on the way.
“For our family, this is the gathering place, and we love it there. I have four grown children; two of them are married with children,” said Stephanie Lawrence by phone from her primary home in Northern California. “We all live in different places, but we try to come together there regularly, and eventually my husband and I may finally retire in Central Oregon.”
Stephanie's husband, Dr. David Lawrence, is the former CEO for Kaiser Permanente, and during his career, the family had to move several times. But Oregon, Stephanie said, always feels like home.
David Lawrence is a native Oregonian. His father, Amos Lawrence, was a former headmaster of the private Catlin Gabel School in Portland, and his grandfather, Ellis Fuller Lawrence, was one of the founders of the University of Oregon's School of Architecture and Allied Arts. He designed the campus' original Knight Library and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
Source: Bend Bulletin