From KCRW, I'm Evan Kleinman and this is Good Food.

A year ago, we planned to show to kick off the new year.

And then on January 7th, the fires started, one in Altadena and one in the Palisades.

So we scrapped our plans and reached out to friends and colleagues at the center of the storm and asked

them to share what they were experiencing. One of the most listened to segments was a conversation

I had with Christine Moore, owner of Little Flower in Pasadena and resident of Altadena. Her

urgent voice, breaking occasionally in tears, told a harrowing

story that moved so many of you. We received countless emails and even received handwritten

letters addressed to Christine with checks tucked into the envelopes.

We plan to show for this week revisiting the neighborhoods in the midst of starting over and rebuilding when we got the news just this Sunday that our dear Christine Moore had suddenly died in the

midst of life.

Devastating news for her children and the many people who counted her as a friend and supporter.

Our hearts go out to Colin, Avery, Maddie, and to the staff at Little Flower.

I'm one of the countless individuals who loved Christine deeply. I met her

long before Little Flower Candy Company or her restaurant, Lincoln. I remember when she was working

at Le Doux for Michelle Lamee. We would trade stories of the insanity we saw at restaurants in the 90s,

but I will never forget walking into her small apartment where she had a regular stand mixer-sized batch of marshmallows going as she wrapped the sea salt caramels by hand that were destined for fame.

She mentioned to me that she needed a bigger space to really produce the marshmallows.

I handed her the keys to my restaurant with the alarm code and told her she could work there

overnight when we were closed

and one of my staff surely would stay to help her. I felt really blessed that I could do something

for her, a generous soul who had already started doing so much for so many. I'll share more of my

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