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2005 Stories by Meredith Brody

• Din With Dinner

  published July 6, 2005

  When I called the new North Beach Mexican restaurant Impala to inquire if I needed a dinner reservation that night at 9, the quick response was,... More >>

• Red Square Meals

  published June 29, 2005

  I've always loved Eastern European food. My Lithuanian grandmother was a wonderful cook, with a constantly-in-use, steamy, pungent kitchen (I... More >>

• Steak Out

  published June 22, 2005

  For the first week or so that I was in Russia, enjoying the food, some familiar (three versions of chicken Kiev; many diverse cabbage borschts;... More >>

• Supping Theatrically

  published June 15, 2005

  Calvin Trillin has a ready answer when questioned about why he and his family chose to live in New York: "We're big eaters." I had a standard... More >>

• Class Act

  published June 8, 2005

  Some tastes are acquired, but sometimes we fall in love immediately. Such was the case for me with the writing of Geoff Dyer, the music of Elvis... More >>

• Feckless Eating

  published June 1, 2005

  When I read R.W. Apple's description of himself in the foreword to his new book, Apple's America, as "never a feckless eater," it was in... More >>

• Eggs and Cheese, Cheese and Eggs

  published May 25, 2005

  One of my favorite things about appetite is also one of the most mysterious: the yearning for something specific, the certainty that I want fresh... More >>

• Never a Feckless Eater

  published May 18, 2005

  When asked if I wanted to meet R.W. "Johnny" Apple Jr., the occasion being the publication of Apple's America: The Discriminating Traveler's... More >>

• Banquet de Luxe

  published May 4, 2005

  The morning after you've feasted on frog's legs, snails, pig's feet, lobster, crab, beef tenderloin, quail, squab, and foie gras foie gras foie... More >>

• Poetic Food

  published April 27, 2005

  In April my fancy lightly turns to thoughts of poetry. This is partly because all around me the Earth is bursting into bloom, brilliant orange... More >>

• Patricia Unterman's San Francisco Food Lover's Guide, 4th Edition

  published April 27, 2005

  By Patricia Unterman Ten Speed Press (2005), $18.95 If a guidebook introduces you to one new place that you love, it's... More >>

• Fat City

  published April 20, 2005

  Even though I do, as the lyric goes, love a parade, it's rare that I bestir myself to watch one in the flesh. My favorite parade memories are of... More >>

• Slices of Heaven

  published April 13, 2005

  Usually my omnivorous friend Robert is quick off the mark when it comes to a well-recommended new eatery, so I have no idea why he still hadn't... More >>

• San Francisco on $36.82 a Day

  published April 6, 2005

  On the whole, I don't have an envious bone in my body. I'm not bragging: It's just an accident of psychological makeup. But I do experience the... More >>

• The Art of Eating

  published March 30, 2005

  Something recently came into my mailbox that seemed eerily apt, seeing as I was thinking about Chinese and Thai food: a press release whose... More >>

• Pressing Issues

  published March 23, 2005

  I first fell in love with Cuban sandwiches in New York. There was a great Cuban coffee shop in the Broadway building that then housed the... More >>

• Seconds

  published March 16, 2005

  There's something faintly illicit about a long, bibulous lunch on a workday, just as there is about going to the movies when the sun is shining... More >>

• Secret Garden

  published March 9, 2005

  Carl, one of my favorite gastronomes, is back in town, and it's clear when he phones to set up a dinner date that he's in an Italian mood: "Have... More >>

• Abandoning Control

  published March 2, 2005

  My eating-out ritual is simple: Several times a week, I dine at a San Francisco restaurant that I've chosen because it's new, or has a new chef,... More >>

• Tiki Tired

  published February 23, 2005

  I can't say I missed having a convenient Trader Vic's when I moved to San Francisco, even though, if you poked around in the back of my china... More >>

• Artful Italian

  published February 16, 2005

  The second Peter, Anita, and I ran into Robert in the lobby of 49 Geary on "First Thursday" -- the monthly late-opening night for numerous... More >>

• Chocolate U

  published February 9, 2005

  My name is Meredith, and I am not a chocoholic. Oh, it's not that I don't enjoy the confection. In fact, at any one time, there may be as... More >>

• Pasta Nostalgia

  published February 2, 2005

  San Francisco's reputation as a great eating town dates back to the Gold Rush, when miners dizzy with gold dust flocked to such places as the... More >>

• Meat and Potatoes

  published January 26, 2005

  After hearing me rave about my meal at C&L, a well-meaning friend inquired if I was sure that it was, as I called it, "the best little steakhouse... More >>

• Inspiring Thirst: Vintage Selections From the Kermit Lynch Wine Brochure

  published January 26, 2005

  By Kermit Lynch Ten Speed (2005), $40 A worthy follow-up to Lynch's irresistible, highly readable, picaresque... More >>