The Homecoming Meal MAI PHAM, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES; Pham is chef-owner of Lemon Grass restaurant and cafes in Sacramento and author of "The Best of Vietnamese and Thai Cooking (Prima Publishing, 1995)
As American as Goat Cheese ABBY MANDEL, Mandel is a cookbook author. Her latest book is "Celebrating the Midwestern Table" (Doubleday & Co., 1996)
Her Only Extravagance Was Her Love of Family Robin Abcarian, Robin Abcarian co-hosts a morning talk show on radio station KTZN-AM (710). Her column appears on Wednesdays. Her e-mail address is rabcarian@aol.com
This 'Reform' Assures a Do-Little Legislature BILL HAUCK and FRED SILVA, Bill Hauck, former chairman of the California Constitution Revision Commission, is president of the California Business Roundtable. Fred Silva, former executive secretary of the commission, is a visiting policy analyst with the Public Policy Institute of California
Jump-Start the Urban Classroom Networks ERIC A. BENHAMOU, Eric A. Benhamou, chairman and CEO of 3Com Corp., serves on President Clinton's Advisory Council on High Performance Computing and Communications, Information Technology and Next Generation Internet