Love: A summer farmers' market dinner. This peach and tomato salad was unique and delicious. Just add some Brentwood corn and grilled halibut or salmon. Here's a link to the salad recipe:
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1988538
Like: There's a guy at the Alameda Flea Market who sells these cool tote bags he makes from vintage tent and deck chair fabric.
Discovery: Christopher Lee of the (sadly) shuttered Eccolo has (happily) reemerged. Lee and a bunch of ex-Chez Panisse types are running the Pop Up General Store in Oakland. Sign up to get on the email list, then pre-order hand-cut pastas, small-batch sausages and lots more that you pick up when they pop up. http://popupgeneralstore.blogspot.com/
Obsession: Pizza Politana at the Temescal Farmers' Market. Their seasonal market pizza, with a cracked egg on top, baked in a mobile wood oven, is the Best. Breakfast. Ever.
Complaint: The weird/judgmental looks you often get at the grocery store from other people in line when you check out and are not buying any fruit or vegetables. Because you already bought them at the Farmers' Market earlier that day. But no one in line knows that. (Quite possibly this is just a Berkeley phenomenon.)
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