Archive for the 'food and wine' Category

Great taste tastes great

Monday, July 7th, 2008

At San Francisco Brewing Company:

View from a room
San Francisco Brewing Company, Financial District, San Francisco, California
Nikon D3, Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G
1/60sec @ f/2.8, iso1600, 24mm (24mm)

I grab Marie’s glass and drag it toward me. “It smells like you squeezed a whole lemon.” I take a sip. “That’s way too sour! You should get another one.”
“Nobody can [...]

McMusings

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Because Morgan thinks I need to blog more fast food…
Today at lunch, I was talking really fast when a friend corrected me, “That’s a Sausage McMuffin, not a Egg McMuffin with Sausage. But the one with the ham is just called an Egg McMuffin™.”
“Actually, it’s the Sausage McMuffin with Egg™, because I think they used [...]

A Grand Slam

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

It’s important to listen to feedback from your readers:
Comment on my blog from John:
Lol, what a complete load of bollocks. I can’t believe I wasted my life reading this.
Comment on my blog from “photog”:
“You are not a real photographer, look at your shots. Stick to being a dork and don’t post this nonsense. Your camera [...]

Triumphs of the Human Spirit

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Blurb is hosting Lunch 2.0 today on Valentine’s Day!
Reading people’s twitter’s I think
Am I the only single person who loves Valentine’s day?
Oh the gifts, flowers, chocolates, singing telegram, and the the restaurant dinner reservation! I love watching the public trauma this day brings to two people in love. Sometimes it is like a romance sped [...]

Starbucks mastermind

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

All month, the closest Starbucks’s chalkboard has read: “Try a Skinny or Mocha Cinnamon dolce Latté A Non-fat, Sugar-free dairy delight!”
I had to stop ordering them because I dislike the sugar-free aftertaste. This means that I’m now faced with the question, “Do I want whip cream in it?”
Of course, when given an option for my [...]

It isn’t Thanksgiving without the kimchee

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

22 November 2007.
The dishes are being passed around the table: turkey, white and dark meat, cranberry sauce, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potato, stuffing, kimchee…
Maybe at your Thanksgiving there is that dish that is not like the others—the one that reminds you that no matter how twinkie you’ve become, there is still a hint of your [...]

Spontaneous Drinking

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

They say a great idea comes from seeing a need and satisfying it.
In the Web 2.0 world, most of the ideas come from taking what people have been doing and putting an “Un—” in front of it.
So you have BarCamp an un-conference. Then you have Lunch 2.0, the un-power lunch. Heck you’d think this whole [...]

Brain error

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

19th century German neurophysiologists successfully map out the brain after a transcontinental flight

Researching my last article was amusing, but doing so made me realize an error in something I said last month.
I didn’t recognize someone I should have because I was jetlagged and hungry. She was non-plussed with my behavior and threatened to “take me [...]

Ode to my breakfast

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Oh cup o’ noodles,
I love your salty goodness—
It is all a lie.
Cup Noodles, you will be the death of me.

Cup Noodles
Tagged, Financial District, San Francisco, California
Nikon D200, Tokina 16-50mm AT-X PRO f/2.8 DX
1/25sec @ f/2.8, iso 800, 40mm (60mm)
For true perfection, don’t forget to add a dab of “hot cock sauce” (Sriracha hot chili sauce).

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Squash soup

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

“Hey, What’s up? How’s your Mickey D’s?”
Me: “I haven’t left yet. You know me, I’m such a fuck up.”
“Haha.”
“I think I’m an affront to San Franciscan’s everywhere eating stuff like McDonald’s, but I got to flush out the nice food I ate today. I think I had butternut squash soup or something for lunch.”
“That stuff [...]