Thinking About Buying Some Meat

Tuesdays are Lunch Bunch days in Downtown Oakland. Anywhere from 3 - 6 friends get together and visit a local spot for easy conversation and cool flavors. This week we went to Rico's at Franklin ...

This post is in response to Dan's Blog. I realized that I have mentally calculated this list in a rough way a couple of times, but figured I should own up to it for real. I'm at 70! Here we go: 1. Venison ...

So this stuff confuses me. I really want to like it. I've had a bunch of different kinds of it, and a couple of great bottles here and there, but also a lot of crap. It's my understanding that lambrusco ...

The Orwell Prize, in association with The Orwell Trust, the Political Quarterly and the Media Standards Trust, have been publishing George Orwell's diaries from the 30s. They're posting a new ...

Odd.

Pearl restaurant was a seafood spot in Oakland. They'd spent a long time remodeling the location (which used to be the Red Tractor cafe, I believe), and it was an exciting thing when they finally ...

Liisa and Jon took us to Camino a few weeks back to celebrate Al and Will's homecoming from a trip to Italy, as well as Lara's graduation and end of her first year of teaching. We ate in the early evening, ...

Than rock-hard abs.

Saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall at the Parkway tonight. I feel like it's the latest in a string of movies that use emotional and physical vulnerabilities (often in the form of full-frontal guy nudity) ...

I have a moratorium on this stuff, which started seriously like five years ago, or whenever the first wave of Aussie wine imports officially ended. These wines are characterized by: Having ...

Wait no it's not! http://saveourtacotrucks.org/ From the above-linked anti-anti-taco truck site: Led by District 1 County Supervisor Gloria Molina, the L.A. Board of Supervisors has passed ...

Liisa sent me a Treehugger article about this 18 sqft kitchen! It's got the equivalent of like 12 cupboards, and totally rotates around, even while the dishwasher and stuff are running. I sort of ...

I've been watching this cooking channel on YouTube lately called Cooking With Dog. The idea behind the show is a lady cooks Japanese food while a silly looking poodle sits on a stool next to her, not really paying attention. It's genius! In this video she makes temaki (sushi hand-rolls) and ...

Lara and I went to Soi 4 last night. It'd been a while since we'd been there, and I was feeling like I wanted to have an up cocktail, so I smoked a bit and we headed to Rockridge. We sat down right away, and ...

I just watched this video by a fresh band called Ungdomskulen, from Bergen. In it, they talk a bit about their music and their band dynamic, while making spaghetti bolognese. There's even a recipe that scrolls down the screen at the end! I am all about friendly dudes making monster riffs and ...

My friend just linked me to this: Food; Proof is in the Pudding Oh, hell, but wait! This was published in 1999! I swear we thought we were original at the time!

Pretty alien: Dinner in the Sky. I want to do this super badly though. How could we do a cut-rate D.I.T.S? Befriend Window Washers?

Had this with my lunch at 'wichcraft the other day. Lots of flavor there. I think I'd the RR once before but usually I drink the "regular" Hitachino, whichever that one is. I will ask my friend Mike ...