Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Let's do lunch:
Pal's Take Away (2751 24th St. at Hampshire, 203-4911) can single-handedly rekindle your love for the sandwich, says our food critic Meredith Brody. A good place to start: today's slow-roasted pork with balsamic Knoll Farm figs, Gorgonzola, and house-pickled shallots.
Drink therapy:
It's Cuban music night at Café Cocomo (650 Indiana at 19th St., 824-6910), and with all-night mojito specials, you'll be partying like Havana 1958, only without the reek of
bpfastball/FlickrFeel the swingin' swagger.Saturday was not only a typically crisp San Francisco midsummer's eve, it was birthday night, that special time of year when we wander the streets and alleys of North Beach in search of fun, frolic, and alcoholic stimulation. This year's celebration took advantage of modern technology for the first time: Tweeting was employed to guide followers from bar to bar, a breakthrough of, as it turned out, no significance whatsoever. Here's a pub-by-pub b
EKAphotographyHavana Good Time: Alex Cuba
In certain Afro-Diasporan traditions, ritual baptism is a well-worn, time-honored tradition. Voudun in Haiti, Santeria in Cuba, Condomble in Brazil, and Pentecostal Christianity in the Southern United States essentially do the same thing. Any important occasion, be it birth or death; marriage or a funeral, is marked by a celebratory event involving song and libations.
EKAphotographySalsa Dancing at the New Parish
Alex Cuba's Friday night
M. BrodyThe books nobody wanted -- even as freebies. Sorry, Guy -- and Gourmet.We made out like a bandit at 18 Reasons' cookbook exchange last night. We're slightly embarrassed about it.
We already have a sister and two friends we regularly give castoff food books to, and we're pretty attached to the ones that remain. So we scrounged around and came up with a couple of paperbacks: Havana Salsa and The Bad for You Cookbook, plus a hardcover copy of Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a
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