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weirdcombos kitchen remodel update: now we’re talking!

April 11, 2011

Since our last update, the kitchen has really come along. The cabinets are all installed with only some minor pieces missing (shelves in one of them, so I guess not that minor, and those cool door stoppers that prevent slamming for about half of them). The bamboo floor is in, minus the finishing molding. I [...]

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weirdcombos kitchen update: we’re the lucky potatoes

March 31, 2011

Well, it is week two now, and I want to be happy. We’ve a new kitchen on the way! But it is a dreadful process, full of anxiety, stress, unexpected expenses and complications. I recently read someone describe a kitchen remodel being like pregnancy: lots of suffering and painful labor before the darling newborn arrives. [...]

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weirdcombos kitchen update: the “fun” has started

March 24, 2011

We’re hanging from a thread in kitchen limbo these days. Yes, that’s right, our renovation project is under way. I know that the weirdcombos have been vaguely mentioning this upcoming calamity for some time, but now it really is time. On the fourteenth, the day that I posted my tagliatelle cook-off recipe with Heavenly and [...]

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Pacific Orchid Exposition

March 11, 2011

Some of the weirdcombos went to the Pacific Orchid Expo last Sunday, held at Fort Mason in San Francisco. This was such a lovely event, which especially lifted our spirits on a cold, rainy, dreary day. None of us had ever seen so many orchids in so many shapes, sizes and colors before. It really [...]

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Community Garden update

March 4, 2011

Woo hoo! We were offered a larger plot and we took it! The new plot is at least twice as big as our former plot 8. In a community garden at the opposite side of Potrero Hill, now we face the Mission neighborhood, Twin Peaks and the Sutro Tower, parts of the Civic Center and [...]

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community garden plot 8 update

January 21, 2011

The Sun has finally come back to the Bay! Perhaps he’s been shy? More likely, he’s been enjoying the summertime beaches in Rio de Janeiro and didn’t have much time for us chilly San Franciscans. Last Saturday morning the members of my new community garden joined forces to weed the common areas. It was fun [...]

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Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table 1500-2005

January 6, 2011

One wonders how many brides in Nebraska really needed a dozen individual mango forks to match their dinner forks, especially if they already had matching berry forks, orange spoons, melon knives, etc. For that matter, how many proper Bostonians actually would have used oyster forks, lobster forks, crab forks, sardine forks, terrapin forks, or even [...]

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becoming an urban farmer for the holidays

December 24, 2010

Santa Claus arrived a bit early for me this year and now I’m becoming an urban farmer!! Originally, I’m from the Brazilian countryside. As a kid I remember tending our ‘horta,’ or vegetable garden, that had a couple of ‘canteiros,’ or beds, where we grew parsley, collard greens, various lettuces, spring onions, fava beans, pumpkins, [...]

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terror is not the answer: lessons from Jack L. Chalker’s G.O.D. Inc. series

December 9, 2010

I heard this amazing interview of the writer, Reza Aslan, on NPR the other day. He was talking about his new book, Tablet & Pen, an anthology of Middle Eastern writing over the past hundred years. The review on Amazon says, “This mammoth anthology goes a long way toward achieving its equally mammoth goal: to [...]

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tofurky 101

December 8, 2010

I don’t know about you, but at my house, the Holiday season means one thing: tofurky time. My friends and loved ones look forward to carving these artificial turkeys annually as part of our “traditional” Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations. Often when I mention to casual acquaintances that a tofurky roast will be the center of [...]

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