Love: The great McSweeney's foray into food-focused publishing. Lucky Peach (the new quarterly magazine done in collaboration with Momofuku's David Chang) and Mission Street Food, (the cookbook and story of San Francisco's "improbable restaurant") are both very fun to read, highly informative and beautifully designed. Hopefully this is the start of a whole McSweeney's food-writing empire.
Like: Oven-roasted cherry tomatoes (olive oil, kosher salt, 400 degrees for 20-25 minutes). They can make even typically bland boneless, skinless chicken breasts more exciting. Add a side of greens and you've got an easy, fast and healthy weeknight dinner that sits pretty on the plate.
Discovery: The Local Butcher Shop, Chez Panisse alums Aaron and Monica Rocchino's new Gourmet Ghetto, well, local butcher shop. Not only is the meat of the highest quality, butchered and cut to order, everything else from the subway tiles to the pin-stripped aprons makes it a stop that promises your meal will be somehow more special too.
Obsession: Creating a turntable/receiver/speakers set-up in both our living room and in the backyard studio. (Currently, we're one down and one to go.) I really like these Cambridge Audio S20 dark oak speakers and picked up a pair. Berkeley's Sound Well is a great resource for restored stereo components.
Complaint: That the Out the Door in the Westfield is "closed indefinitely." Their fresh vegetarian spring rolls have been my favorite lunch. Now I will have to schlepp down to the Ferry Building once a week to satisfy that particular craving.
i was so sad when i heard about the 'out the door' westfield closing...it's our lunch spot! boo!
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