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Isaac Cronin
Isaac Cronin

Isaac Cronin

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Isaac Cronin
Isaac Cronin
Oct 17, 2015 · 9 min read

Why Did You Kiss Me: Cooking For The Godfather

When I met my future wife and the mother of my two children, Terrel Seltzer, she was rooming with Constance Penley in an essence-of-Berkeley apartment up on Panoramic Way above the football stadium. Connie was at the height of our career as a…

Isaac Cronin
Isaac Cronin
Oct 17, 2015 · 6 min read

Cooking Under The Gun

My career as a food professional did not begin romantically. It started with the murder of my friend and comrade James Carr. Dan Hammer, Jimmy’s brother-in-law, and I had barely finished editing the first draft of Jimmy’s autobiography, Bad, a tough tale of life in South Central and the…

Isaac Cronin
Isaac Cronin
Oct 17, 2015 · 11 min read

The Lettuce That Ate New York And The World

Walking toward me, a towheaded two-year old cherub boy balanced on her hip, was a tall, angular blonde woman wearing a nautical blue striped long sleeve t-shirt, khaki shorts, a floppy straw sun hat and rubber boots… The quintessential French California…