There are many factors that led Taylor Jenkins Reid to choose the space as a backdrop of their new novel, “Atmosphere”, an exciting love story in NASA in the 1980s.
It could have been his trip in Los Angeles.
On Sunday Funday, the people of Los Angeles give us a play per game of their ideal Sunday in the city. Find ideas and inspiration about where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on weekends.
Specifically, her trip along Dr. Sally Ride Memorial Highway, a part of highway 101 in Encino. “I am sure that it made its way in my subconscious,” says Reid. “It was waiting for me because I have driven for that sign many times.”
Much of Encino and The Valley inspires Reid, the author of a brilliant repertoire of best -selling novels that include “Daisy Jones & The Six” and “The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo”. She talks about walks, views and charming restaurants that have remained for generations. This is how a perfect day in Los Angeles would spend with her husband, Alex Jenkins Reid, and her 8 -year -old daughter, Lilah.
8 am wake up and take a book
All in my house are reading in bed. I'm reading “Harlem Rhapsody” by Victoria Christopher Murray. I have arrived late multiple mornings now for how much I am enjoying it. It's like, “Oh, I'm sorry, I was reading.” My son does the same. She and I will be as: “Wait, it's already 7:40? You suppose you should be in school!” But we are both reading.
9:30 am: a place where everyone knows your name
My family and I love going to this little restaurant in the valley called Millie's. It is a place without luxuries, but the food is very good and my husband's family has been going there for at least 30 years. The server always remembers my husband's grandfather and asks how his grandmother is and how his mother and his brothers are. It has a feeling of small people so charming. In addition, tortilla soup is incredibly good. It is, how, one of my favorite things
10:30 am: it reaches the road
After that, I will inevitably try to bribe my daughter to a walk. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The thing is that he really loves to walk and simply forgets what he does. Where I love to go, and I have not been able to due to the fires, it is the Upper Canyonback Path [temporarily closed] In Encino Hills. There are two ways to go. If you go to the left, there is a great view of the city. You can see Century City and even the city center on a clear day. And the hills are beautiful. But if you go to the right, you can see the oak reservoir and, finally, you will reach a nike nike silo dismantled. We made a game time decision.
Noon: an afternoon of the bookstore
So I have to do good in the way I bribed my son and one of his favorite things is to go VROMAN'S In Pasadena. He has one of the best book sections for children in Los Angeles: he occupies half of his second floor. She will grab a lot of books, I will have taken books below and we will be sitting in a bank by reading them. And you know, my husband likes: “Friend, would you like to go and pay for these?”
2 pm: jump through the old hull Pasadena
Not so far from Vroman's, there is this intersection that has so many things that we all like. Motto tea coffee It serves Japanese Souffle style pancakes. They are so fluffy! My daughter normally gets the simple ones with the Nutella cream at the top. This place is often quite full, so we ask in advance. Then there is this ice cream place called Kinrose Creamery That is incredible. They realized me to basically try all the flavors. They have a sour cherry with dental thread that is different from everything I have had. And there is a park near there, Central ParkThat is really beautiful and has a very expansive game area. And my son will go play for a while.
3:30 pm: See an obsession
On the way back to our car, I will go to Farrow & Ball And just look at the colors of paint. I am completely obsessed with the colors of paint, so I make my family go quite frequently. I never have a reason to be there. When the person says: “How can I help you? Are you looking to paint something?” I'm like, “no, I just want to look at the colors of paint.” They have excellent names for their entire painting, you could probably name you all for you, literally. Those that I have in my house: dead salmon, skim stone, Wimborne White. My daughter and I have become obsessed with a very beautiful coral orange called Naperon. We are both like, “we have to paint something Naperon!”
There is a woman who is Farrow & Ball's color curator and her name is Joa Studholme. She is the only person who is famous for me and my daughter. She makes these videos in which she is talking about why they came up with a paint color and my son and I will only see them four times different.
5:30 pm: The best pasta of all time
Every Sunday night, we eat to carry Lido pizza. No matter the most elegant place you have been – this It is the best pasta. I love it so much. And there is something in your salad dressing that is exactly what my gustatory papillae want in a salad dressing. I have gone so far as to ask for a complete jug for my house.
It is such a humble and unpretentious place. We have been taking my daughter there since she was a baby. When the movie “Booksmart” came out, we were watching it and we saw that a complete scene takes place in the Lido parking lot. We eat there every Sunday night, and at this point, they just have to know that the call will arrive at some point around 5:30.
7:45 pm: the “good night”
My daughter gets on bed and reads for an hour. During that time, my husband and I will see an episode of something, lately, we have been seeing “The Studio”. Then, when it's time to go to bed, she leaves her room and asks for the “good night.” It is when I hold it for a minute and sing. She called him only one day. She said: “I need the 'good night'.” I thought: “I think I know what you mean by that.” And then my husband and I will lie around 10:30.
