San Francisco has had an veritable caffeine frenzy of local small roasters ever since gourmet coffee in the US was kicked off in Berkeley in the 1970's. Nobody, however, has been quite as fanatical as Blue Bottle Coffee Company, known to spend $1000's on special bags and custom equipment, and never to sell any bean more than 2 days old.
First of all, voter registration deadline in most states is Monday, so get moving and get yourself registered.Second, I'm voting for Barak Obama in a few weeks. I thought that I'd share ten of the reasons why.
Since some people are still getting warm weather out there, I thought I'd post one of my favorite Middle Eastern salads. I call this Tabouleh Plus Plus because I like to turn Tabouleh from a starter into the main course of a cold lunch by adding lots of "stuff". Stuff, of course, being variable according to what's in season at the grocer's.
This picture is tabouleh with multicolored tomatoes, black lentils, red onion, Syrian sheep's milk cheese, and mint.
Good Cajun/Creole breakfast in the 'Loin. Expect long waits.
The Armenian Food Festival, at St. Gregory's on Brotherhood Way, has given up any pretense that you go there for anything but the food. Sure, they have dancing stewardesses (see below) and music, but that's just so you have something to do between courses. As, in fact, you need.