The Grizzly Rose!
My Mile-High adventure ended with a bang. A Grizzly Rose Bang! I escaped the press trip (well, it came to a civilized end) and spent the evening with friends who find themselves living and loving in...
View ArticleDogpatch pizza
“Dogpatch pizza” is our family’s name for Piccino. It is not an insult. It is a geographic descriptor. Dogpatch, for those outside of San Francisco, is a neighborhood between Potrero Hill and the Bay....
View ArticlePizza party with jazz hands
Last night I learned a dear friend (dear enough so I bothered to make pizza for him–even show him how to stretch the dough, which means I let him in my kitchen) was, for a brief time, a professional...
View ArticleWork party
I’ve been thinking a lot about work lately. Not just my own, but the concept of it. I have a friend with an intriguing retirement plan. When she’s ready to stop working, she plans to buy a small farm....
View ArticleLemons on pizza?
Well, it worked at dogpatch pizza. But even though I used Meyer lemons, and sliced them very thinly, they were as bitter as bitter can be. I still rather liked them against the golden beet greens and...
View ArticlePortland continued: Pok Pok & Ken’s
How can I explain it? Why did my meals yesterday bring forth such rage? I kid, of course, but only slightly. I grabbed a bowl of curry soup (light fresh coconut milk broth, thin and tangled egg...
View ArticleValentine’s
We don’t go in for Valentine’s Day much at our house. (See further thoughts on the subject over at sfgirlbybay: Friday Food Files With Molly Watson: Valentine’s Supper.) We used to not “celebrate” it...
View ArticleBlarg!
The city of Denver completely freaked out. Everything shut down. I guess, from what I heard and have seen in pictures, some areas really were slammed with snow, but in the city itself things didn’t...
View ArticlePizza at The Lab
I ate pizza at The Lab last night. The Lab is a museum, a public space, a place that puts together some thought-provoking discussion panels, and a place that, for reasons only it can divine, invited me...
View ArticleTwo salmon pizzas
I’ve been playing around with salmon. Lots of salmon. I returned from Cordova, Alaska with smoked salmon in jars and smoked salmon in vacuum-sealed bags. I was, for a brief moment in time, smoked...
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