About Us
Hello & Chaò, we’re Todd and Diane. We’re fools for good food, great conversation, green gardening and traveling. For us, our lives have always been about love, family, friends, sharing, exploring & food. These four essentials of survival brought us together & eventually became the basic ingredients to molding our different backgrounds and personalities into one balanced dish.
We cook, consume and create from childhood comforts that our fore fathers passed on through our heritage. But, we are not bound by it. Open to feeding both inside and outside our cultural comfort zones, we believe food holds few boundaries; so long as we understand and give respect/recognition to it’s origins. After many frustrations, failures and success, we continue to evolve at the stove and in our personal lives.
This site is our outlet to share our essentials of love, food, adventure, sharing…& a bit of steam.
We’re in Los Angeles and are full-time photographers, part-time food writers and geeky cooking instructors. By day we stay busy in our photo/multimedia studio, freelance on assignment and contribute to Edible Los Angeles Magazine, Ngoui Viet 2 Daily News, LA Weekly – Squid Ink and Good Bite. By night we share it all with you here, on our food, garden, travel and photography blog. Last but not least, our lives are complete because of our two crazy, but loving dogs, Dante and Sierra.
Why “White On Rice Couple”?
Because it’s a fun term that describes us well. Todd was born on a cattle ranch in North Eastern Oregon and Diane was born in Da-Nang, Vietnam. Without taking ourselves too seriously or sounding corny, we do enjoy each others company, companionship, love and friendship. In other words we stick together like “White On Rice”, inseparable. Often times though, we’re literally taken as a sexual connotation and readers come to us hoping to find porno. To their pleasant surprise, they’re bombarded by food, our garden and our dogs. Bummer for them.
And yes, we like to ride free and fast too. But SAFE! Just don’t tell Diane’s mother.
Read more about Diane’s Comforts: food stories from her childhood.
Press & other recipe mentions:
- Los Angeles Times article and Video – Banh Mi : Vietnamese Street Food with a French and SoCal Twist
- NPR Radio – KCRW Good Food show interview with Evan Kleinman
- Orange County Register – Couple create a virtual culinary career
- Feature about relationships in East West Magazine
- LA Times Daily Dish Blog
- Blog Her writing nomination
- Serious Eats, Blogwatch
- Gourmet.com
- Washington Post
- Apartment therapy- The Kitchn
- New York Times
- Slashfood
- Examiner
- Kitchen tour with Jen Yu, Use Real Butter
- Interview with Marilyn, Tell Simmer
- FoodieView
Contact us at “td (@) whiteonricecouple (dot) com”
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