I’m thankful that I get to write about food, a passion of mine for the past 30 years. It’s a privilege to do what I do. For me, that means it’s my responsibility to write about more than meals good and bad. While I want to continue sharing my restaurant discoveries with you, I think it’s my duty to also report about the ills of a food system gone off the rails and point out solutions wherever they may be.
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Bones make soup, and soup is the soul of Polish cooking. It comes in two categories: clear meat-based simmers including cabbages and beets, or mushroom soup with a cream base. A cabbage or beet soup should have a rich hearty core and mouth feel but no obvious meat, with a depth imparted by a healthy fat content, as when a home cook would use the ration’s quota of bones.
The Progressive International Motorcycle Show rolled into the San Mateo Expo Center a couple weeks ago. The conference halls were filled with the usual suspects: Harley, Ducati, Kawasaki, Yamaha, Suzuki, Honda and Triumph. You could almost hear Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild” playing in everyone’s head at the Harley exhibit.
The SoFa District continues its celebration of San Jose art and culture with South First Fridays, December 2nd from 7 to 11pm.
For both well-established and emerging businesses, the struggle to set themselves apart and create an image that portrays what they represent has always been a key ingredient to future success. Finding this creativity doesn’t typically come easy, and it takes a certain kind of individual to be able to pinpoint that creative spark to get things off the ground and set ideas into motion. Alfredo Muccino does this for a living.
A good restaurant bar offers the best of both worlds: good food and good drink under one roof.
Roughly 2.3 million Californians receive financial help in getting enough food to eat, but it’s the nearly 3 million others who don’t take advantage of the federal food stamp program who are costing themselves—and California.
If there was ever any doubt that Congress is a bunch of corrupt morons, last week’s vote on school-lunch reform should clear that up once and for all. Legislators voted to block a long-overdue overhaul of the nation’s school-lunch program proposed by the U.S. Agriculture Department and handed a victory to makers of frozen pizza, French fries and tomato paste.
Indo Cafe is the most un-Saratoga restaurant in Saratoga, at least by the old standards. For one, it’s not even visible on Big Basin Way. It’s behind the UPS store across from the tumbleweed-blown Buy and Save shopping center. You have to drive between Ristorante di Mario and Rose International Market buildings and park in back to find it.
Celebrating its 60th anniversary, SJYS kicks off the season with a concert on December 3 featuring works by Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Gould and Liszt.
