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Went to Olives last night for dinner (menu is online). Good service (although a bit rushed at the end, we probably had the last reservation, it’s a pet peeve of mine to have servers take away plates before everyone at the...

to the Western Ave. Shrimp House and someone bought a bag of shrimp. To be honest, the hierarchy of fried shrimp in a bag places is not something I can speak confidently on, but seemed fine by me. After worrying that our Mayor...

My parents gave my husband a book about cheese from Murray’s cheese shop in NYC, the American artisinal cheese collection from Williams Sonoma, and a few boxes of Carr’s crackers. Yum.

Wow - good luck....great country you have there – but I’d look for actual Mexican folks and ask or a recommendation...check online for the locan Hispanic community and ask around....Vegemite Mole?

that was a lovely post. Just reading it comforted me :) A personal habit of mine when I’m blue and indigestive is to go to a fresh, clean organic market like Whole Foods and let loose on a minor shopping spree – pick...

for which I can find a recipe online) is Tom Kha Gai (the chicken coconut soup). Here’s a link (you will have to cut and paste) to a Tom Kha Gai recipe that looks pretty easy, yet authentic: http

there are coffee shop/diners run by Koreans with Korean offerings on the menu. My favorite of this type, which is solely Korean, is Lincoln Korean Restaurant, which would rate a -2 on the S/C hip o meter. There is also...

into quarters, which gives 8 diff faces/pages. Unfortunately, the script is very tightly packed and is not numbered so that if we are going to work on translating it online, it would still be a bit of a challenge to coordinate...

Ahh, I forgot about the all-important 50% off of holiday-wrapped candy the day after the holiday shopping spree!

to shop for. Recipes are not allowed — that’s why they all run like crazy from baking, which is much harder to get right without knowing the exact proportions, and why in Top Chef 1 Dave talked about having memorized...

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selling VERY healthy items, as well as a few gourmet coffee shops and the like, with drive thru windows. These places are (and were for me) a way for many people to make money, either due to the times we’re living in, for...

well this seems like a good enough time to once again link to one of my all-time favorite on-line art archives: the gyros project see attached Link: http://www.interestingideas.com/roadside/gyros/gyros.htm

Thanks for the added emphasis, Caitlin. It is easier and cheaper to get to Oliveto from Union Square than to many points within SF’s borders. Also, the food shops and Rockridge neighborhood are a delight for any chowhound....