food, and other musings

Alice Waters, Calvin Trillin, and Ruth Reichl

On October 30th, this trio, each food-famous in their own right, will be chatting about the art of simple food as part of the San Francisco City Arts & Lectures series. Tickets are on sale now...if you're interested, get yours today as these events sell out fast!

chomp chomp

I'm eating an apple as I type this. A glorious, out of season Fuji, probably imported from like nine million miles away. Oh, well. Pobody's nerfect.

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I went to Nua again last week. And I'm going again this Friday (for my birthday!). To say that I am obsessed with their cauliflower is a gross understatement. It would be akin to saying that Joan Rivers has had a little work done, or Stalin was sort of a crab apple.

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I went to Maverick for brunch this weekend. Is it sacriligious to admit that I thought it was only so-so? I thought they were supposed to have the best brunch ever ever ever. Hmm. I loved the home fries, though; they make the best home fries ever ever ever, and I would absolutely go back just for those. Just a big-ass plate of home fries. Yessirree.

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Sunday night, Mr. Food Musings is taking me out for my birthday. Where are we going? It's a surprise! I LOVE surprises. (Well, some surprises. I hate the "candle in dessert at the restaurant" kind of surprise. Last time someone did that to me, I burst into tears. I was MORTIFIED. My family will never ever ever do that again.) But back to the good surprise -- which is itself a huge surprise, because although Mr. FM has many wonderful qualities and talents, planning ahead is not one of them. Nearly every birthday, he says something like, "I meant to get you flowers, but I forgot." (sigh) Anyway, this year he got his act together, even AFTER I booked my birthday dinner myself, and he refuses to tell me where we're going. Even if it's nowhere good, it's tummy-tingling fun not to know where! WHEEEE!

Blue Cheese Truffles

Peanut butter and chocolate? Yum!

Caramel and chocolate? Yes, please!

Blue cheese and chocolate? Disgusting!

...or is it? Read all about the Smokey Blue Truffle at KQED's Bay Area Bites.

The Virgin Mary appears in Oakland!

Sunny day. Good friends. Virgin (bloody) Mary. New chair! (Impulse purchase.) Delicious jam. Good day.

unrelated

32 innocent people plus one troubled soul dead in Virginia Tech.
3 shot dead today in a Kansas City shopping mall.
2 killed at NASA.
1 woman dead at CNN Center.

Isn't a death toll of 39 people in just over 3 weeks enough, people?

Do you really think if all these wackos had been packing knives that so many Americans would be dead?

Fuck the NRA. Fuck the 2nd Amendment -- it's not guns that are going to protect us from our government these days.  If we don't support gun control, we can expect more headlines like these.

Good Germs

Wonder why anyone, much less a germaphobe like me, would eat live bacteria? Find out over at KQED's Bay Area Bites.

nonsense

1. Sanjaya got booted. Thank God there are still institutions we can believe in.

2. Pres a Vi sucks. Apparently Larry Birkhead is working the host stand, and he's not happy about it. (And the food? Pluhhhhhh.)

3. Grey is the new black. For real.

Over and out.

Jury Duty

I am sitting here in the bowels of the courthouse on McAllister and Polk, and my tummy is growling.  Last time I had jury duty, I discovered Pocky. Do you know about Pocky? It is fiendishly good. Perhaps, if I am not lucky enough to be sent home soon, I will luck into another such culinary discovery, despite the great odds against it in the Civic Center neighborhood.

Happy Easter!

trivia

The most-searched term that leads to my blog is: how to make paneer.

It was either post this or pick some more lint out of my belly-button. (My conscience has asked me to add "or go back to writing the feature story I'm utterly and completely procrastinating on." Eh. It'll get written. But first, I should really transfer the clothes into the dryer.)