This is a not just a book, these are stories you can taste. Dancing in Time Playing with Fire is a culinary, artistic and global adventure that opens worlds few people experience Dancing in Time, Playing with Fire is a phoenix tale of triumph, despair, adventure, endurance, loss, and renewal. It is a story of our times which arcs from American suburbia of the 1950s, through the footloose days of hitchhiking, hippies, and Altamont of the 1960s, to the worlds of music, education, and law into the 21st century. The story moves from California to Sri Lanka to England; from swimming pools to concert stages, and from a dirt floor basement on Cannery Row to the halls of the California Supreme Court. Along the way you meet athletes and biologists, actors and musicians, Tarzan and Poe, teachers and attorneys, remarkable foods of the world ... and two pigeons.