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  • Shop Local

    Shop Local

    Your Friends Are Already There And Size 10.5 Is Normal(-ish) You hear it all the time: shop local. And yeah, there are the usual reasons—support your community, keep money in town, all that jazz. But…

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  • Salsa Seca, Let’s Never Part xoxo

    Salsa Seca, Let’s Never Part xoxo

    Behind the jar with Chef Nacxi Warning: might go on ice cream Falling Hard for Salsa Seca X I L L I is a collection of authentic, traditional, and artisanal Mexican salsas, moles, escabeches, and…

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  • Food Talking with my Second Self

    Food Talking with my Second Self

    This isn’t a review and it’s definitely not a list.  It’s just how we eat.  I have opinions, Stef has a frighteningly good palate, and between the two of us we spend a lot of…

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  • Mt. Tam:

    Mt. Tam:

    A deep dive into a California triple-cream icon Cowgirl Creamery was founded in 1994 by Sue Conley and Peggy Smith, longtime friends and veterans of the San Francisco food scene. Their résumés included stints at…

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  • What We Keep

    What We Keep

    Alarm clocks, towels, fur coats, and other unlikely Christmas survivors At the tail end of this summer, the Amazon Christmas toy catalogue showed up in the mail. My little Lulu, now seven, pounced on it…

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  • Still Thankful

    Still Thankful

    Next generation = fine dining survives.  I’ll eat to that! Meet Mia I’ll be honest — I’ve always been a little conflicted about GoFundMe. My generation was raised on the gospel of “figure it out…

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  • Looks like a little Smack Talk

    Looks like a little Smack Talk

    Normally I don’t write a second blog post so soon after hitting “publish,” but after the last one, I got feedback. Specifically from one highly opinionated reader: JZ. He tried to leave a comment on…

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  • Roll All the Way to La Louisiana

    Roll All the Way to La Louisiana

    Overindulgence at Its Finest No Beads Required This month happens to be my birthday, so I wanted to write about one of my most memorable ones—18 years ago, to be exact—when we decided to follow…

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  • What Haunts You

    What Haunts You

    JASON, MICHAEL, THE SAWYER FAMILY? Or Angel of Music forever in your head… Original post 10.20.2023 then uploaded here. Please disregard “canvas editor” on some of the photos. I give up trying to get rid…

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  • And Just Like That

    And Just Like That

    It’s time to shop for shoes School shoes that is I’ll be upfront with you — I’m not an And Just Like That fan, and I didn’t really watch Sex and the City when it…

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