Archive for April, 2008

I’ve always believed

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

that the person running the front of the house plays a major role in a good restaurant experience. But I guess I shouldn’t plan on taking the border collies to Grayz.

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4 Questions 4 Gray Kunz

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

When I asked my friend Eric Gower – a chef and cookbook author blessed with an exceptionally knowedgeable and discerning palate — who he’d like to see answer four questions, his response was immediate: “Gray Kunz. The man is a genius.”
Born in Singapore but Swiss by nationality, Kunz trained with the iconic Fredy Girardet and [...]

Tags: Fredy Girardet, Gray Kunz, Grayz

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Food Festival, part the second

Monday, April 28th, 2008

After a breakfast of good eggs, great bacon and lousy service at Market Bar, J and I filled a few shopping bags at the Ferry Building Farmers’ Market and then headed to Berkeley. Specifically to the parking lot of J’s favorite wine merchant, Kermit Lynch, where he and Cafe Fanny were hosting Oyster Bliss XVII.
Lynch’s [...]

Tags: Cafe Fanny, galette, Kermit Lynch, Oyster Bliss

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Got plastic bags? Re-use ‘em!

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

 

Cabrillo College Farmers’ Market

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I left my waistline in San Francisco

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

I’m sitting here staring at my lunch — two hard-boiled eggs and a WASA cracker –while savoring memories of last weekend’s food festival. Between noon Friday and one o’clock Saturday I had lunch at The Four Seasons, dinner at Salt House, breakfast the next morning at Market Bar, one perfect macaron at Miette for elevenses [...]

Tags: Four Seasons, Kermit Lynch, Miette, Salt House

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4 Questions 4 Tamasin Day-Lewis

Monday, April 14th, 2008

At the beginning of February I wrote about Tamasin Day-Lewis’s wonderful book, “Where Shall We Go for Dinner?” And now I’m eagerly awaiting an even newer work: a big fat compendium of her recipes — 1,000 of them — titled “All You Can Eat,” due in May. To complete my personal Tamasin triathlon, she recently [...]

Tags: Cecil Day-Lewis, Daniel Day-Lewis, Puglia, Richard Corrigan, Slow Food, Tamasin Day-Lewis

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A Cake for Company

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Since I knew they were comin’ I baked a cake.
And because they were coming from across the country (and, in the case of one of them, from across a lot of years) I wanted it to be wonderful. When I want wonderful, I frequently turn to Nigella.

Nigella Lawson’s Clementine Cake
from “How to Eat”
4-5 clementines, about [...]

Tags: clementine cake, ginger cake, Nigella Lawson, tangerine cake

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4 Questions 4 Hubert Keller

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

If I were going to cast a movie set in an elegant French restaurant I’d pound my desktop and bellow to my minions: “Get me Hubert Keller!”
And if said minions had been to San Francisco’s Fleur de Lys, met the tall and handsome Keller and his stylish wife, Chantal, and enjoyed the food in the [...]

Tags: Fleur de Lys, Hubert Keller, Moulin du Mougins, Paul Bocuse, Paul Haeberlin, Roger Verge

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Loving Lola

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Last week I made a quick trip to Dallas, Phoenix and Barcelona.
OK, I lied about the Barcelona part. But the dinner I had at Lola Tapas in Phoenix was so evocative of my favorite Spanish city I kept turning to J and saying, “I love this place. I LOVE this place.”

Housed in a tiny building, [...]

Tags: Felicia Ruiz Wayne, figs, Penelope Casas, tapas, Tetilla cheese

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