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Food, Glorious Food!
I had a wonderful foodie day yesterday. (Hmm, "foodie" is technically a noun and I need an adjective, but there are significant phonological problems with "foodiey". So we'll just go with zero-conversion.) Met up with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
j_i_m_r, tafelspitz, etaine_pommier and her main squeeze, and -- hope I have this handle IDed correctly -- mad_duchess at the Ferry Building to do the Farmers' Market. Usually when I hit the Ferry Building market it's as part of a general shopping-in-SF day so I pick up a few particularly interesting things but don't try to do serious produce shopping. But this time different logistics applied, so I went all out, only limited by how much I was willing to carry around in a shoulder bag (as opposed to the larger limit of "what I can eat before it starts wilting"). In addition to lots of usual stuff (corn, chard, cucumbers, green beans, a funky assortment of summer squashes, ditto of eggplants, lettuce, some truly heavenly aged goat cheddar) I was enticed into the luxury of picking up a small container of truffle infused salt, and having decided I needed to have some more rotisserie fun this weekend, picked up a nice free-range chicken (from the nice butcher that madbaker gets his pork bellies from) who gave me a "new customer with the right sort of friends" present of some ground beef as well. It's fun shopping with people who Know People.
We adjourned back toj_i_m_r & tafelspitz's to stow the shopping in the fridge and have the sort of brunch one throws together after shopping at a farmers' market, then headed out to the Civic Center to take in the Slow Food Nation displays and booths and a little more shopping. (Tickets for the tasting pavilions at Fort Mason had been sold out for some time so we didn't even try over there.) The booths at the Civic Center were sort of a "farmers' market for people who don't know about farmers' markets yet". A lot of the vendors were the same as at the Ferry Building but the concept was for each booth to feature that producer's best product, so the tasting was good, and you could do a little "try it and see" shopping (I picked up some pistachio flour from the pistachio booth), but if you're used to the real thing, it was simply very crowded and a little disappointing. Still and all, the mayor's victory garden on the plaza was impressive, and there were a lot of prepared food booths demonstrating that "slow food" is still compatible with a county fair atmosphere.
After that we adjourned to Absinthe for cocktails, then a minor digression though Citizen Cake on the way back to the bus stop. Back to home base again with paella for dinner, and picking upvittoriosa. Needless to say there was a lot of arts-geeking throughout the evening. A day like this almost makes me feel like I have genuine foodie credentials.
j_i_m_r, tafelspitz, etaine_pommier and her main squeeze, and -- hope I have this handle IDed correctly -- mad_duchess at the Ferry Building to do the Farmers' Market. Usually when I hit the Ferry Building market it's as part of a general shopping-in-SF day so I pick up a few particularly interesting things but don't try to do serious produce shopping. But this time different logistics applied, so I went all out, only limited by how much I was willing to carry around in a shoulder bag (as opposed to the larger limit of "what I can eat before it starts wilting"). In addition to lots of usual stuff (corn, chard, cucumbers, green beans, a funky assortment of summer squashes, ditto of eggplants, lettuce, some truly heavenly aged goat cheddar) I was enticed into the luxury of picking up a small container of truffle infused salt, and having decided I needed to have some more rotisserie fun this weekend, picked up a nice free-range chicken (from the nice butcher that madbaker gets his pork bellies from) who gave me a "new customer with the right sort of friends" present of some ground beef as well. It's fun shopping with people who Know People.We adjourned back to
j_i_m_r & tafelspitz's to stow the shopping in the fridge and have the sort of brunch one throws together after shopping at a farmers' market, then headed out to the Civic Center to take in the Slow Food Nation displays and booths and a little more shopping. (Tickets for the tasting pavilions at Fort Mason had been sold out for some time so we didn't even try over there.) The booths at the Civic Center were sort of a "farmers' market for people who don't know about farmers' markets yet". A lot of the vendors were the same as at the Ferry Building but the concept was for each booth to feature that producer's best product, so the tasting was good, and you could do a little "try it and see" shopping (I picked up some pistachio flour from the pistachio booth), but if you're used to the real thing, it was simply very crowded and a little disappointing. Still and all, the mayor's victory garden on the plaza was impressive, and there were a lot of prepared food booths demonstrating that "slow food" is still compatible with a county fair atmosphere.After that we adjourned to Absinthe for cocktails, then a minor digression though Citizen Cake on the way back to the bus stop. Back to home base again with paella for dinner, and picking up
vittoriosa. Needless to say there was a lot of arts-geeking throughout the evening. A day like this almost makes me feel like I have genuine foodie credentials.
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I use "foodie" as both noun and adjective -- interchangeably, inconsistently. Is that so wrong? ;-)
Arts-geeking was awesome. :-)
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