1.07.2010

2009 Best of
Foods

Apples & onions with rosemary
Big Eds by Saxon Creamery
Brussels sprouts with almonds
Cara cara oranges
Frilly mustard greens, raw or sauteed
Golden beets, blue cheese, walnuts, basil, sweet onions, balsamic vinaigrette (what at first seemed hopelessly old-fashioned became simply ideal and endlessly delicious)
Heirloom apples
Huguenot torte (vintage NYT recipe)
Navarro Vinyards Gewürztraminer Grape Juice
Okra parboiled before breaded and fried
Pizza Brutta with Clara (later meal there with Bradford was good but the food less perfect)
Pot du creme au chocolate avec caramel salé et crème Chantilly (from birthday dinner at Sardine)
Radicchio, almond, and cherry salad (Mark Bittman recipe)
Red romaine from the apple farmers
Sassy Cow Creamery (also Sugar River Dairy yogurt)
Strawberry pizza ( Jeremy Fox recipe)
Sugarloaf radicchio
Summer fruit cakes
Technicolor cauliflower
Whoopie Pies (NYT recipe)

To be heard in the voice of the femmy Latino/a? MC at San Francisco karaoke bar The Mint who followed up Kenneth's flawlessly sly performance of a certain Kenny Chesney number with the comment, "A tractor can be sexy, I guezz": Provincial can be gastronomically appealing, I guezz.

2 comments:

Kenneth Burns said...

I should have done Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" that night at the Mint. Then she would have liked me!

tooknap press said...

I've been wanting to to whoopie pies for months, now.

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