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Je suis desolé avec le 2005 La Bastide Saint-Dominique Châteauneuf-du-Pape Les Secrets de Pignan

June 29, 2010

Just to celebrate the middle of the week last Wednesday, we opened a bottle of one of my favorite wines: La Bastide Saint-Dominique Châteauneuf-du-Pape Les Secrets de Pignan. We discovered this wine by chance while dining at Chez Papa, a French restaurant here on Potrero Hill in San Francisco. I took Steven there to celebrate [...]

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The Slanted Door, San Francisco

April 1, 2010

What can be said about The Slanted Door that hasn’t been covered elsewhere? Probably nothing. We’ve adored this restaurant since first going there about seven years ago shortly after moving to San Francisco from New York. By then, they were already at their “new” location in the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero. Folks around here [...]

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2008 Domaine de la Becassonne blanc

March 4, 2010

We’ve been great fans of white Domaine de la Becassonne from the southern Rhône for ages. We first came across the wine more than two years ago when the 2006 vintage was on the market. We hardly ever drink white but enjoyed this one so much that we ordered a case. The 2007 vintage was [...]

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spaghetti with fiddlehead ferns

March 3, 2010

I got this recipe from French Women for All Seasons and have only been waiting for fiddleheads to appear in the market to make it. We were in luck last Saturday while revisiting the Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market. There was a huge pile of fiddleheads at the charming mushroom shop inside the ferry terminal. I’d [...]

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a toast to Brazil

January 16, 2010

Hegui and I are heading to Brazil next week for a while. Yesterday was our last night by ourselves for the next three weeks! To celebrate I made a simple meal of spaghetti with a sauce of garlic and escarole sautéed in olive oil with salt, black and red pepper and some parmesan cheese. We [...]

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Chez Papa Bistrot, San Francisco

December 10, 2009

We’ve been eating out a lot more than usual lately. Perhaps it’s because of the holidays? Don’t you always feel that it’s fun to meet friends and loved ones at restaurants for memorable meals when it’s getting colder and the days are shorter? I always do. I’m a bit worried about the potential adverse effect [...]

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2007 Châteauneuf-du-Pape pre-arrivals: to buy or not to buy?

October 8, 2009

All of the professional wine critics agree: 2007 is an amazing year for Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Actually they said the same thing for 2005. The ‘05’s were just being released when I first got the wine collecting bug. I didn’t really know that much about Châteauneuf-du-Pape except that Hegui and I like it. But I knew how [...]

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2007 Côtes du Rhône home tasting

May 9, 2009

French wine is tricky. For one, the labels are confusing. Unlike California and other New World wines, the names on the bottles usually don’t reflect the type of juice inside. I like a lot of them but a fair amount of the French stuff tastes like crap. Prices can be so outrageous that you’re constantly [...]

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running the spinach marathon

May 8, 2009

When we first moved to San Francisco from New York , we joined Costco in a rush of excitement. This is a store that requires a car, something that we didn’t have (or really want) in Queens. Plus the fact of membership helped us during that delicate transition period from one city to another when [...]

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a Roman holiday: tomato pasta my way

May 2, 2009

I simply adore Italy: the people, the food and wine, the long and glorious history and culture, the art. It blows my mind. I hope to live there for a while some day. I love cooking Italian food too. It’s often fairly straightforward. The cuisine tends to stick to the basics; emphasizing the ingredients instead [...]

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