Roasted Chioggia beets with nectarine juices & marjoram. We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here is our short and sweet favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Michael Bauer eats and examines the L.A. dining scene. We're shocked, shocked! to find out that many folks there feel they are and deserve celebrity treatment and ample ego stroking from restaurant staff. The Vegetable Harvest cookbook by Patricia Wells gets a look, which was......

Lucky Patricia Wells. She is the American born food critic for the International Herald Tribune, runs a rather posh cooking school in Provence, and has uber agent Amanda "Binky" Urban. The lucky lady even owns one of Julia Child's old stoves! Her life seems to be about eating, cooking, teaching and globe trotting. Example A for the court: she has 14 stops for her current book tour. Wells is a lady of a "certain age",......