While unsuccessfully looking for the famed Framani meatloaf at the San Francisco Costco refrigerated section, I found instead Casa Sanchez pupusas. 10 pupusas for $10. While not as good as Balompie’s freshly made pupusas,...

The name is Fra’Mani. Bertolli will be doing a free salami and sausage tasting at The Pasta Shop on 4th St in Berkeley this Saturday, 12-3. www.framani.com

Fra’Mani http://www.framani.com Fatted Calf http://fattedcalf.com/ Columbus’s artisanal Felino http://www.columbussalame.com/dyn/browse_products.html?brand=2&category=1&format=1&page=2 Restaurants with great housemade...

standards (considering this is NA) are: Fra’Main in Berkeley, CA (http://framani.com/) and Salumin in Seattle, WA (http://salumicuredmeats.com/)...there is also Boccalone in Oakland, CA (http://www.boccalone.biz/) that is...

Curds & Whey, Foster & Dobbs, Pastworks (both City Market and Hawthorne). Fra’Mani is carried at Pastaworks and Foster & Dobbs, I believe, plus Whole Foods and Steve’s Cheese, I think. Probably some other places as...

Fairway carries fra’mani.

Best salami I’ve ever had came from these folks: http://www.framani.com/ The website says their stuff is available at Le Grande Orange and Whole Foods. Don’t know if that is true.

For those of you living in the Richmond, this market is really doing a good job of being responsive to the neighborhood. Most recently, I noticed he is starting to carry Fra’Mani Italian Sausage.

The chorizo at BLD is from La Espanola and is top notch – maybe not what you thought you were going to get, but exactly what it should be. Other meats are from Fra’Mani, and the cheeses are generally well-chosen and...

FC is actually located in the city..SF They sell at the Ferry Building on Sat. and Berkeley FM on Sat. Next year they will opening a shop in Napa... Look for Framani..Paul Bertolli, ex-chef at Oliveto, has started his own line of...

Paul Bertolli is coming to the Taste Cheese Shop in SD Paul was the former Chez Pannisse/Olivettos chef and co-author of Alice Waters' cookbooks has gotten about his new venture Fra’mani Salumi. He’ll be discussing and...

The Chron reports that "fresh sausages are already making their way to stores via Cheeseworks East and West and Tomales Bay Foods." Those are wholesalers. Anybody seen them retail outside of Point Reyes Station? Link: http://...

_de_charcuterie_auvergnate.jpg http://www.bienmanger.com/images/genre/479_Saucisse_Seche_Lozere.jpg and here is a wonderful articel from teh Economist (yes, i know, strange) about cured meat. It’s very interesting and...

the mail order route see: http://www.framani.com/ located in Berkeley, CA Paul Bertolli’s salumi are of the same quality if not better than poppa Batali.

What sort of help do you need? Search the SF board for “Paul Bertolli” (correct spelling) and "Fra’Mani". Former chef at Oliveto (oakland) and Chez Panisse (berkeley) he’s now off making some pretty excellent...