On Foodiots…and Don Draperfeatured
Hahaha, had to share this from The New York Observer:
“…New Yorkers’ water-cooler chitchat has changed. They used to talk about sex and politics and TV shows. Now they can’t stop yapping about what they’re shoving down their pie holes…”
Touché, Observer, touché.
You certainly wouldn’t catch Don Draper talkin about the succulent rock shrimp he cooked up for Birdie the other night, now would you? Not so much.
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Festa del Pesce at Poggio + Lemon Mouse with Meringues and Pistachiosfeatured
As featured in Bay Area Bites, September 23, 2009.
The last rays of sun warmed my shoulders as I drank in the waterfront views, sailboats bobbing happily beneath a hillside of pretty pastel homes, and made my way to a charming trattoria spilling out onto the sidewalk. A leisurely seafood supper awaited me, complete with crisp white wine, homemade pasta, and hospitality as warm as the balmy breezes floating in from the wide-flung doors. Was I in Capri? Positano? Close. Sausalito.
Located below Sausalito’s landmark Casa Madrona, Italian trattoria Poggio seems like the perfect place to milk the remnants of an Indian summer.
I was invited to do just that at last week’s Festa del Pesce, a celebration of local seafood during the last days of summer. On the menu was a selection of mostly local and sustainable fish served raw, cured, marinated, oak grilled, wood fire roasted and fried.
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Foodbuzz Community Table: Food & Fun of Epic Proportionsfeatured
Big thanks to Foodbuzz and Visa Signature for hosting a fun-filled night at Epic Roasthouse last week! The Foodbuzz Community Table event brought together 20 food bloggers for an evening of colorful conversation, good food, flowing wine, and a bay-view sunset.
We got the royal treatment as we sipped pink bubbly (Scharffenberger’s sparkling Brut Rosé) and nibbled on canapés outside on the patio.
Our servers humored us bloggers as we whipped out our SLRs/Powershots/ iPhones as each new dish hit the table.
Oh yes, the food paparazzi were out and proud.
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Key Lime Coconut Cheesecakefeatured
As featured in Bay Area Bites, September 16, 2009.
I once created a dessert inspired by a body lotion I fell in love with one summer. It was a creamy Coconut Lime Verbena lotion, and as I slathered it over my body, with the seductively warm coconut scent mingling with the sweet floral citrus notes of the lime verbena, my mind wandered to dessert.
Surely, such a match made in heaven could come together in flavor as well as aroma.
And indeed it could…in what I call my Key Lime Coconut Cheesecake. This decadent treat is like the tropical love child of a refreshing, tart, key lime pie and a rich cheesecake…with a coconut cream pie floozie thrown into the mix.
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