Doesn’t a career in wine sound fun? Like your existence could be a delicious, sybaritic adventure full of wine-soaked dinners and a never-ending supply of fantastic bottles of wine to sample? Is this the image that has led me to my crazy current course of action? So in case I haven’t mentioned recently (and I’m [...]
Posts Tagged ‘San Francisco’
Working in Wine
Posted in San Francisco, Uncategorized, Wine, Wine Country, tagged Napa, Restaurant, San Francisco, Sommelier, Sonoma, Wine, Winery on August 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Stilettos for Spatulas
Posted in San Francisco, tagged Cooking, Restaurant, San Francisco, Store on July 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I used to be completely and totally obsessed with shoes. I was the typical Sex and the City watching, Manolo Blahnik fiending, girly cocktail drinking chick. I spent large portions of my paycheck on gorgeous strappy stilettos and chunky wedges. I loved shoes. I’m not sure exactly when I stopped caring about shoes so much [...]
Heritage of Herring
Posted in San Francisco, tagged Alcohol, Food, Herring, Russia, San Francisco on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For many a year I have praised the virtue of the seeming ubiquitous Russian markets here in my San Francisco neighborhood of The Richmond. These corner shops stock all sorts of Eastern European goodies: Russian spirits, Polish sweets, German mustards, and Hungarian paprikas. They also usually carry a fairly decent selection of basic corner store [...]
