Dim Sum guide

I've been mulling over the benefits and difficulties in bringing back the ancient larder or thrawl, or even some no-electricity cooling pantries, and now I'm in information-gathering mode ( Read more... )

A nice Cuban Cafe near Hawaii Pacific University, on the edge of the heart of Chinatown.

Cocktails: very good, not too sweet, not too expensive (half the price of Waikiki). Commendable: El Presidente.

Food: Ok, and a nice slight variation on much the same ingredients of the rest of local cuisine ( Read more... )

Damn, beer's gotten pricey! A collection of 6 bottles used to run $5.99 just a year ago at TJ's. Now they're retailing at $7.49. I can get a way decent bottle of wine for $7.49 at the same store.

With fuel strikes, television license fees, concerns over NHS ... the Court decided applying a VAT to Pringles would probably start a revolution. ;-p

NPR's Talk of the Nation is on the topic. Included interviews with a NYTimes photographer who was shocked by the hordes of hungry people in Haiti; and Q&As with Jeffrey Sachs. Commentary from phone-in members of the public, with many questions, and observations about their own middle class coping strategies (e.g. eating less, all the food to the ( Read more... )

Scrapped the Orinda ride for something closer to home. Met up with Elise and Heather and rode through the Wiggle to GG Park and on over to lunch at Park Chalet. Yum! The apricot wheat ale - DOUBLE YUM! :-)

Distance: About 18.5 miles total. Less than the 28.5 miles of Orinda - but good enough.

Well, it only took me a whole year after buying this signed book to actually read it! (and I'm glad I finally did ( Read more... )

Weighed to California.

I need to examine their methods still, but I'm glad someone has ventured into this territory.

Last comment: I'm particularly blessed to live in California, where there are non-import local alternatives for a wide range of agricultural produce.

So I got off my lazy derrier and joined the crowd of cyclists at Embarcadero despite the cold weather and my sleepless lethargy. On the whole, I was duly rewarded for the effort: the Mass was very well populated, with people in costumes of all varieties ( Read more... )