Today for breakfast matrushkaka, her dad, and I went to House of Bagels in the Richmond. While waiting for my whitefish and onion I overheard the store clerk explain that their bagels were kosher style, but not technicaly kosher. Being a fan of complicated religious rules I asked what the difference was ( Read more... )

I thought that this questionnaire was worth answering. Actually it's less of a questionnaire, more of a to-do list. I've eaten 76.5 things on this list.

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I get my hair cut at Nancy's Barber Shop in San Rafael. Nancy is a late middle aged Vietnamese woman and runs her barbershop as a one-woman operation. Over the last several months I've gotten her to open up a little about her childhood in Vietnam, experience during the war, and fleeing to America with her children after the war. (Things have ( Read more... )

I'd like to congratulate you on a new restaurant, but I've got a small concern about one of the items on your menu. The Daily Candy mentions that you've got "butterfish brûlée":

If the "butterfish" in question is escolar, aka Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, your diners might be in for an unpleasant surprise. The Escolar accumulates indigestible wax ( Read more... )

Articles about vegansexuals are making the rounds in my social group:

A GROUP of vegans in New Zealand - vegansexuals - are shunning sex with meat-eaters because their bodies are made up of animal carcases ( Read more... )

Vladimir Poutine

Earlier this week my officemate mbod had a little gastronomic adventure. I told him that it would make a very good post but he never got around to writing about it, so I present his story with T's permission here.
On Sunday, R, G, mbod and I decided to barbecue so we went to Berkeley Bowl. At the fish counter I spotted some really nice-looking escolar ( Read more... )

ronebofh pointed out that I did not offer "edge" and "corner" choices in my previous poll.

Poll Brownie Poll #2

Today I had brunch with creepyanonymous, magpiebofh, gaping_asshole, and sploof. Creepy mentioned a famous old deli here in LA named "Ships". I can only assume that anyone who decided to name a business after the third person present tense conjugation of "to ship", a verb in common in the retail and catering industry, did so (several decades) before they realizing that Google searches for ( Read more... )

matrushkaka just told me about Gelato Fantasia. It's a new resturant that just opened, walking distance from where I work, where a cute Japanese girl serves you ice cream and pie. I am OK with this, both in concept and practice ( Read more... )