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July 1, 2010
Letter from the Editor: Welcome to My Neighborhood
July is here! My god, look at this ultra blue sky– it’s so goddamn bright here, I still can’t deal with the California sun. Quit complaining! It’s gorgeous here! Fine. It’s a new month, and rent is due today. This is my first rent check I’ll be writing since I moved out of Brooklyn! I’m […]
June 29, 2010
The Plumming Project: Ingredients + Recipe
Summer is here. You know how I know? Christi called me last week and said, “We’ve got plums coming out of our ying yang, from the trees in our back yard. Will you come take them?” Yes, this is the same Christi who handed me bags of apricots last year, with which I made jam. […]
June 28, 2010
The Famed Focaccia at Liguria Bakery (SF)
Trekked over the Bay Bridge last week (that $4 toll, about to be $6, is gonna be the bank-account-death of me) and visited North Beach. The Coit Tower greeted me with open arms on this sparkly, cloudless, “summer” day. Hellooooo San Francisco!!!! Thank you for clearing up for five minutes. Appreciate it. This particular trip […]
Culinography: Garlic Scapes
We just had our first CSA pick-up of the season and received these amazing garlic scapes! I like to chop them finely and cook them with scrambled eggs. photo © Erin Gleeson
June 25, 2010
Radio Africa Kitchen (SF)
Had dinner with my friend Enric at Radio Africa Kitchen last week, a roving restaurant that pops up these days at Coffee Bar in the Mission, on Friday nights. I love nomadic restaurants! Maybe it’s cause I love the Limited Edition concept– there is something exciting in it. Remember when my friend Momo would host […]
June 24, 2010
Umamiventure #26: San Pedro Fish Market (LA)
Photos by Alda Ly, Moet Hashimoto, and myself. Sara wrote a post two years ago about the San Pedro Fish Market, and I’ve fantasized about visiting since then. All that sunny, surfside seafood looked like paradise. So that was the obvious choice for Umamiventure #26, since I was coming into town. Also, with all the […]
June 23, 2010
Happy Hour: Vermouth Perucchi
 For a long time I’ve been hounding my local wine merchant, T.B. Ackerson, to stock some vermouths in order to save me the constant pilgrimage to Manhattan’s Astor Wines, which is one of the few places that stocks a variety of quality vermouths–and I go through a fair amount of vermouth rather quickly. My neighborhood is sort of up and coming (though […]
Morning Glory Salad at Jitlada (LA)
Sorry for this jank picture, but it will have to do. I present to you: Jitlada’s Morning Glory Salad. I can’t stop thinking about this, since I had it two weeks ago at the famed Thai joint, Jitlada, in LA on Sunset. It’s fried watercress (aka “morning glory”), chopped red cabbage, red onions, shrimp, more […]