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This was a fancy seafood dinner.

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Napa is like another world. Really.Especially when you have lived, like I have, in an authentic, inexpensive ethnic food laden area of the South Bay. The South Bay-an embarrassment of riches: pan chan, taco trucks and halal kababs for miles....that isn't even the begining. I couldn't possibly name it all. Sigh.As much as I miss it terribly, I have, however, realized the joy of eating chicken

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What happens if you leave an artichoke on the plant and allow it to bloom? Voila!

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In 2003, Glenfiddich conducted a poll, and named The World of Susie Wong Club as the best bar in Beijing.In 2006, I went there and proclaimed The World of Susie Wong the official Marrow Spoon Best Bar in the Whole World. Sure, you can't drink the water there, but I don't take ice in my drinks anyway. The entertainment, the decor, the menu, is all very cool.Don't leave Beijing without visiting it.

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Aqua is a hip place with a posh website on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong. At 1 Peking Road, it offers a lovely view of the famous Central skyline at night. As you can see here, the website is fabulous. Unfortch, the restaurant itself is not as fabulous as the website. It is beautiful, and the food was lovely, but somehow the website made it seem bigger and hipper than in was in real life. In real

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OK, I have to admit, I didn't try these beautiful specialty hams of Zhouzhang. I was so full from lunch I could barely walk! But they looked and smelled fantastic.So far, everything I thought was unusual or unique to China is actually pretty easy to find in the SF Bay Area, so I hope to have another chance.This is in the touristy part of Zhouzhang, which I am told is something like Venice, Italy,

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In China, it seems like the most frightening things are good for you. Take this snake wine, for example. In some way the tour guide and lady serving the snake wine was too busy laughing at me to explain, it is supposed to be good for ladies. They have some other blends with legged animals infused, but those are for men. They put hair on your chest, or something. Anyway, it was not advised for

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On a hot day at the Great Wall of China, there is a vast array of frozen treats to tempt you away from your hard-earned RMB. You can choose ice cream bars in corn, pea, soy bean and taro root, as well as the general strawberry and vanilla flavors you'd see here at home. Pictured here? Taro, a purple root vegetable that is something like a sweet potato. In ice cream, it is wonderful, subtle and

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Oh, I shouldn't say so. I didn't try it, so perhaps it is magically delicious. I am happy to report that the filet-o-fish continues to be the same everywhere. 

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The Marrow Spoon garden came back all by itself. I'm not sure I can even call it "my garden" any more. Sure I added some supplemental organic fertilizer and a few filler plants, but this plot clearly belongs to the tomatoes that grew up from last year's fallen seeds all by themselves with no encouragement. I was even a little annoyed at first, because I planned to pull them out to turn the soil,

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A fresh loquat is something you can't buy in stores. At least, not that I have been able to find in this country. However, it grows all over the place, since it looks rather like a magnolia tree and requires little care, it is a popular apartment tree.So you'll see these trees just heavy with bright yellow, fig-looking fruits and dark, shiny leaves with a characteristic broad shape. Sadly, most

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It seems that lately I am doing a poor job living up to my name. That is to say, I am not being much of an evangelist, am I? Tres, tres fou of me.Anyway, as I am sure you can imagine, there is so much to catch up on. So, let's begin!You probably think all I do is eat panchan, and that I should have called this site The Kim Chee Tong, or something, but I have good news from the Secret Garden

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I was in New York last week, on a budget, so there is no visit to Per Se or Nobu to report.There is something about those hot dogs, though. I'd love to know how many kajilion hot dogs are sold in NYC every day from carts. Through that vast quantity, I have to say that they have come to perfect the hot dog. I usually don't even eat forcemeat, but the cart dogs in NY are truly something else. They

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Well, koulfi, actually. At Real Ice Cream they serve Indian food and ice cream made fresh onsite without eggs. I'm not sure if the eggs are omitted in order to honor a vegetarian code, or if it is just a traditional style, but you won't miss them. The koulfi is thick, creamy and intensely flavorful. And what flavors! Mon dieu, you have to look hard for this place, because it isn't easily visible

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Tokushima Do-henkotsu is located next to Mistuwa supermarket on Moorpark and Saratoga. They serve tokushima style ramen, which is a little different than the ramen you find at Halu or Ringer Hut. Tokushima ramen has a complex broth made by simmering fish flakes (bonito), kelp, chicken and pork bones and some secret spices for up to 18 hours. The noodles are your standard ramen type, but the

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Can purely vegetarian food be good? I mean, not good, like "I will eat it if it is good for me," or "I'll eat this now to feel less bad about having In and Out Burger later..." but good as in, "I will drop what I am doing and drive across town, occasionally running a red light to get there by 9pm for take out, even though I already had dinner."Yes, it can be. Fortunately, I don't have any traffic

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We went to Cafe Brioche on California Street in Palo Alto to have a snack before wandering around IKEA. Because of damned Tony Bourdain and his "Why the French Don't Suck" show, we were craiving Bistro food in a big way. So few good places are even open on Mondays, and I came across a Cafe Brioche review from 1997's Metro while looking for information on Lulu Petite. It was a good find, the

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Gary Danko takes the branding just a little too far, with GD toilet paper. Otherwise, lovely.The cheese cart and customizable menu is reason alone to go right now.The music and decor are a little spastic, it isn't a place for a leisurely romantic meal. But the food is very good, and the portions are huge compared to other restaurants in the same class. Service was good, but special arrangements

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My correspondent in New York is undercover at a Mediterranean cooking class, learning the romantic art of pairing flowers with beef. Who knew such things were possible? Well, of course, I did, steak with lavender crust is a classic, but roses and cinnamon is a new one, I'll admit.I am posting this now, in order to give you time to perfect it by February. Marinade:1 garlic clove, crushed to a

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The Smallest Beckham Fan (World Cup Japan)

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Dinner was Beautiful Every Day

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cheval sashimi in TokyoYes, Madames et Monsieurs, that's horse to you all. I'm sorry I didn't get to try it braised in a nabe, I think it would have been nice. Not that it was bad this way, just well chewy. As I am sure you can imagine, (if, like me you've given a lot of thought to muscle structure in various animals,) it has a rich flavor but it isn't very tender. The white pieces are from the

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The generosity and masterful cooking prowess of the Korean restaurant never cease to amaze and delight me.This is all the stuff you get free with your meal!

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Not much background explanation needed, it is clearly a battered and deep-fried oreo cookie, but these were surprisingly good. Seriously, they whip the fried snickers bar and scotch egg with authority.And they pair marvelously with Gordon Biersch Marzen.Disfrute!

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Ruth's Chris, UnderacheiverThe bowl of cheese next to the steak is actually the gratin the restaurant is semi-known for. It is sad when you can get recognition for your starch just by adding 5lbs of cheese to it. I like cheese as much as the next person, but two inches of it melted over some diced undercooked potatoes doesn't make a good gratin. The steak was tough and sinewy, and the flavor

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Berkeley's Cheese Destination

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The Cheeseboard Collective Pizza

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Suggested Garnish

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A few to choose from..If you click the picture you can read the print on the board. A staggering selection, served up by enthusiastic-cheese worshipping communists, er...I mean, employee owners.

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Resistance is Futile

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Paul Fernandez, Old FashionedI wrote a post, but blogger ate it again. So, basically the drink is an old fashioned. It is good. Try it at the Hedley Club, ask for Paul.Ciao.

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La Pastaia makes a perfectly tender and wonderful trout that is butterflied and then turned inside out so the skin is in the middle, wrapped around rosemary and lemon, and the perfectly cooked, crisp filets outside are surrounded with prosciutto. Can I get an "Amen," brothers and sisters?

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Communing With NatureOK, so it isn't really food related, but I'm sure that kid would have bit the walrus if not for that pesky glass. And, I wanted to try out my phone camera at the Indianapolis Zoo. Coo coo ca choo...

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Truly awful.Somehow I felt compelled to try it. I've visited every restaurant in Santana Row at least once, and being known as an eater, people rely on me to know about such things, so I have to try everyplace at least once.Now, I have suffered for you, so that you don't have to. I have paid money for gross food, dirty dishes, chipped plates, smokers sitting next to me and rude staff. Please

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Maybe you remember how excited I was that goat milk ice cream even existed?Well, I could barely contain my enthusiasm when I saw it for sale at my local Whole Foods. You know I am food crazy, so you might not be surprised to hear that I stood for about 20 minutes in front of the freezer trying to decide which flavor to try first.Pumpkin, for the holidays? Black Mission Fig, because when have

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You'll have to hurry. The tomato tasting menu at Viognier in San Mateo is soon to be replaced by a truffle focused tasting menu. Yes, I know, everyone does tomato dishes at the end of the summer, but this foie gras Reuben sandwich is something altogether different. I had heard the raves about it, but I simply could not believe that it could be good.I mean, foie gras and sauerkraut? Hrmm.Too, I

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Refusing to grow in the standard cucumber way.

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These here in the photo are babies, barely the size of my index finger, but I picked seven full-sized cucumbers off this plant about a week ago. Today I had two the size of my forearms! I am not a large woman, but still! It is incredible! The flavor is very good, as well. They are really almost too cucumbery.

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42nd Battalion, Marrow Spoon Tomato ArmyLock up your daughters, folks. Hordes of innocent looking young tomatoes are taking over!

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Haribut, grolirous, haribut!Dear Hatcho,I love you. I love the way you shout "Issirrimasee!" when I arrive, I love your live sweet shrimp. Most of all, I love when you have fresh halibut with the proper accompaniments. The ponzu sauce and the mixture of grated radish, chili paste and bonito flakes is so amazing with the sweet fish and fresh green onions. Every time I feel like I have tried all of

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This is the garden on July 23rd, a ridiculous abundance of fruit and foliage for a 6x6 plot.As you can see from the photo I took on June 10th, and again on June 29th, it has grown like mad.The plant in the front grows gorgeous English -type cucumbers. Reaching out to the right is the kabocha squash, and feeling out the left side is the Amish watermelon.

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I feel that I am slow at getting this obvious clue, but the seafood department at Ranch 99 in Milpitas is amazing. They have lively Maine lobsters that are easily 15 or 20 pounds! Monster Lobsters!Similarly wonderful is the selection of leafy greens. Let's start with Chinese Broccoli. You're not likely to find this at Safeway or Whole Foods, so you'll have to venture out to a real Chinese store.

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"Monkey Picked"*I apologize for the fuzzy picture, but my hand was unsteady after drinking two pots of fabuleaux tea this afternoon.It was tieguanyin oolong tea at the Imperial Tea Court at the Ferry Building in San Francisco. My server brought out the dry tea in a celadon porcelen tasting cup, and presented it to my nose for approval before rinsing it in a quick splash of hot water. Yes,

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I discovered a noodle that has 20 calories per serving, 1g protein, 3g carbs and 1g fiber. It is also available 24 hours a day at Safeway for $1.79.It is made of some magic Japanese yam and tofu. Quite rubbery, but not in a bad way.Looking at the nutrition info, I still can't get my mind around it. How could it be? It's not synthetic, like olestra or whatever cheating they're always trying to do

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So, I don't have room for a garden in my yard, nor do I have more than 4 hours of direct sunlight anywhere. So, I have taken over the neighbor's yard.He wasn't really using it, and I bribed him with tomato futures.So, this is the garden on June 29th (see below for the picture on June 10th). Pretty impressive, no?

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Is it some kind of unholy cross breed? Or genetic engineering?* Whatever it is, seek out these delightful little crimes against nature! They look like yellow plums, but they have an intense, sweet/tart flavor. The outside skin has a strange texture, too. Not fuzzy, but sort of rubbery. Not in a bad way, but they feel a little like neophrene fruits. But frangrant, mon dieu! You can smell

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This is Stag's Leap cabernet on another perfect day in Napa.

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Dried BonitoMaybe you have seen dried bonito flakes as a garnish on a cold tofu appetizer or soup? Well, before they become shavings, they look like this. They have the look and strength of horns, but they are in fact miraculously dried pieces of fish meat. You can buy them like this in the open market in Tokyo, or they will send one through a woodchipper-looking machine for you, so you can take

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Looking for a Lost Contact? Just kidding. Go to the Tsukiji fish market early in the morning and you can see the world's largest tuna auction. Or, sleep in a little bit, come later and watch the spoils be divided. If you're not squeamish about fish carnage, this market is better than any aquarium for the variety of sea life you can examine up close. It's a little intimidating at first, since

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Fresh live eels by the bucket in Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market. It is somewhat shocking and to see the violent way these little sea snakes are filleted. The vendors actually reach into this writhing bucket of squiggling eels, pull out an unlucky one and nail it's head to a cutting board and pull the tail straight, so as to be able to hold it steady while running the knife along the spine. It is as

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The Garden on June 10th This is just about 6' x 6' with tomatoes, (only cherry now,) lemon cucumbers, Amish watermelon, standard cucumbers, kabocha, purple shiso, pumpkin, violet fava, sage, lavender, basil and fresno chiles. I am so excited. I can't wait to show you the progress to date. Even though I have lost one tomato plant to gophers or college students, the others are flourishing, with

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In Japan, there is no end to convenient and sterile packaging. Above, salad is pre-chewed and aseptically packaged for personal use on the go!I'm always hoping that soft drink companies will develop products that are lower in sugar or otherwise healthy, but I tell you, veggie soda is not the right direction for my tastes. Water Salad is not as tasty to the Ganjin palate as it is good for you.

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My garden, though about 50 feet back from the sidewalk is visible from the street. It's also not fenced and is in full view of a family photography studio that does a good business. So, for about a month I have been tending a variety of plants with very little hope I will get to enjoy any of the produce myself. Still, I didn't expect pillage so early in the season. Today someone stole a tomato

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I'm considering changing my name. Or, perhaps I should take on a title:Mlle. Comida Evangelista, Le Grande Dame du Poulet.Oui, that could work. I don't even like chicken, but I tell you, I am The Queen of cooking it. Even I almost like my own chicken dishes. Last night I made saffron rissotto with chicken. Marvelous breasts from Draegers were pan seared for about 3-5 minutes per side and

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There was this little blurb in US News this week about strange ice cream flavors that referred me to the Laloo's Goat Milk Ice Cream and Ecreamery web sites. Wow. OK, first of all, Ecreamery has some truly intriguing flavors. Cheddar and smoked vanilla, avocado-macapuno (macapuno is the young, soft coconut), ube (purple yam) with jackfruit. There's cucumber dill, too. I could go on and on. And

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Best Taste is really the best chinese food I've had in the South Bay, maybe the best ever. Also, they are nice. And they deliver.Don't pass up the crispy pan fried noodles. They are super fabulous! I think they are more generally known as shanghai style noodles, I'm not sure. They use thick noodles, kind of like udon, but with more flavor and a more yellow tinge, (like fresh ramen). They're

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I have an adorable pad of natto paper. Really, it is too cute. What makes it so amusing is the contrast between the rotten nastiness that is natto in real life, and the cute, friendly looking cartoons. In real life, the cords that stick it all together are revolting, but in the cartoon, they are charmingly trying to stretch away from eachother. I guess it is not really a food post, as much as

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I have some ingredients at my pantry that I will probably never use. But I love having them. Chestnut flour would make great pancakes, and maybe gnocci or pasta...It could be a nice addition to sugar cookies, or biscotti. But I have to tell you in all shame, my oven has not worked for almost a year. It's gas, see? And, as embarrassing as it is to admit, I am afraid of it.So, anyway, I don't

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Did you know that over 40% of the rice grown in California is exported to Japan? That is a whole lot when you think about how rice is a sort of cheap staple product. Not that Japan could grow its own locally, but it seems like it would be more expensive to ship it to Japan than it would be to buy it, say, anywhere else in the world. Maybe problems with China won't allow them to buy it there, but

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Did you know that a cup of lowfat milk has 11 grams of sugar? OK, it's not exactly Coca Cola, but for something wholesome, it sure has a lot of simple carbohydrates. Silk unsweetened soymilk, (in the teal package) has 1 gram of sugar per cup. It also has a small amount of fiber (which is absent in milk.) No transfat, no cholesterol, and exactly the same amount of calcium. Milk beats silk on

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Greek yogurt is thick, almost like cream cheese. It has a ridiculous amount of fat in it, (unless you get the FAGE 0%, which is lovely, albeit less creamy). With less water than regular yogurts, it has a lot more protein. Too, I have only seen it sold plain, so you don’t have all the sugar you’d get with a Yoplait or Danone or something. It’s more than a snack, though. It’s hearty.It’s really

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Lobster legs are like the pixie sticks of the sea, just full of seafoody goodness. You can keep the tails and the claws, but I wish I could just buy a little box of legs, like they sell pocky in.Also, if I haven't lost your faith with my love of spindly lobster legs, eat at Bistro Elan in Palo Alto. Have the fish-and if it is served on a bed of brussels sprouts and bacon, then you really need to

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P.F. Chang's is bad. Do not go there, even if it is right next door to a show and you only have one hour to eat. Even if you like the food and the big exotic drinks. Unless it amuses you to sit ignored for 30 minutes while a very large number of employees stand around with blank looks, you will hate it.

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The reason that the proportion of vermouth in martinis gets smaller and smaller is because gin is being made more fruity and flaccid.A martini is straight alcohol, it is meant to be strong. The flavors of gin are supposed to be herbal and intense--the vermouth offers a roundness and another dimension of herb flavor and the olive (or onion) give the complimenting salt and acid.The "high end" gins

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Yesterday I was lucky enough to have a generous gentleman share a bottle of 1994 Jimsomare Cabernet from Ridge with me. It is so wonderful. Balanced, low alcohol, just the right amount of age. It had flavors of pencil lead (oddly, a very good thing), violet, cassis, pebbles and pepper (black). Perfect acid and tannin balance, beautiful bronzed ruby color*. Go on, buy it and drink it now.We

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I do not have to tell you that there are few places in this area that provide good service. Or, maybe I do. Because poor service exists in so many places, and no one seems angry about it except me. Part of the reason is that too many people do not know how to act when out to stores, restaurants, departments of motor vehicles.... People who try to get their way by bullying, repeating requests,

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Sometimes new food preparations are adventures, sometimes they are just wrong. OK, mostly by "new" I mean borrowed from another culture that has been doing it for hundreds of years. Sure, Asian foods are easy targets, but consider the turducken: An innovative new millennium way to enjoy three family style roast birds without all the dishes? Or, rather, a depraved homage to Medieval days when

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Now, I understand it is indelicate to talk about, but do you remember your mother saying to you, "Don't put that in your mouth! You don't know where it has been!"?If you are not comfortable with cute furry animals being killed for food, and yet you still want to eat them, then you might be a little bit of a hypocrite. But OK, so what? Who is not?I don't care about that.However, if you are SO

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I have spent many years masking borderline alcohol abuse in snobbery. Or maybe I am masking snobbery in alcohol abuse...Hmmm....anyway..Either way, my level of snobbery is so snoberocious that sometimes, it is sort of, well, mainstream. You can go too far, and then you come back around. Do you know what I mean, Darling? Like, "I simply do not care what you other fools say! Budweiser is a good

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The beautiful fall fruit season is in full swing.I was always grossed out by persimmons as a child, (they seem too much like tomatoes to smell that sweet), but this year it clicked. I'll eat my hat if they don't make the best cookies ever. Really easy to make. Here in the South Bay, they are falling off trees everywhere. If, like me, you insist on organic food that has been shipped at great

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Paragon Restaurant211 South First StreetSan Jose, CA408.282.8888http://www.paragonrestaurant.com/sjhome.htmParagon is a great place to take a first date if you're used to eating at the Olive Garden.The design of the space is so cool. It looks very clean and fashionable without being distracting. The dark rooms and the layout give you some sense of privacy, and make you forget you're in San Jose.

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Choi's Restaurant408-206-0303930 El Camino RealSanta Clara, CA 95051A $6.99 lunch special comes with all the panchan and filtered water you want. Panchan is the Korean variety of side dishes, here it is kimchi (of course) bean sprouts, chapchae, spinach, potatoes and some items that change weekly. There's always the odd fruit salad--compared with all the bright and flavorful dishes, it looks

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