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The Health Nut

Get Smar Radio: Food Fight!

Tomorrow night (June 17th) is the latest session of ~GET SMART RADIO~: Food Fight! The Challenge of Making Food Taste Good While it Saves Your Life. Join Get Smart Radio’s host Deborah Pardes with Dr. Daphne Miller, author of The Jungle Effect: A Doctor Discovers the Healthiest Diets From…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
October 27, 2009
What’s Cookin’

October 27, 2009

Last week was a much-needed break in between rounds of book edits (am in the home stretch, woooo!), so I took advantage of my deadline-less state to drive to Napa for dinner (destination: the intimate Terra in St. Helena—still wishing I had leftovers of the spaghettini with tripe in…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
tablehopper tasting: sherry
The Socialite

tablehopper tasting: sherry

As you may remember, I took a weeklong trip to Jerez at the end of the summer this year, and fell madly in love with sherry. Touring the bodegas, I gained such an appreciation for the craftsmanship and years of tradition that go into making sherry; it's surprising…
Marcia Gagliardi
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Terzo
The Regular

Terzo

Crispy onions Hummus and pita One of the unexpected pleasures of my book writing process was rediscovering places I hadn't visited in a while (and of course there were some places I wish I had left well alone, ah well). But in the delicious revisit category was TERZO.…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
Terzo
The Regular

Terzo

Crispy onions Hummus and pita One of the unexpected pleasures of my book writing process was rediscovering places I hadn't visited in a while (and of course there were some places I wish I had left well alone, ah well). But in the delicious revisit category was TERZO.…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
October 20, 2009
The Chatterbox

October 20, 2009

Yesterday was a red-letter day in San Francisco. Actually, a red book one, since the ~MICHELIN GUIDE~ released its San Francisco ratings. Congrats to one-star newcomers Aziza, Commis, and Luce, and up in wine country, étoile, Santé, Solbar, Terra, and Ubuntu. More on the local scene: Quince also got its…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
October 20, 2009
The Lush

October 20, 2009

Over in the Mission, things are getting close for ~SOM~, which will have a grand opening on Friday November 6th. The former Pink space is going to have an articulated (but not fussy) cocktail program of accessible and classic cocktails served from 4:30pm–10pm nightly, and then the DJ…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
The Starlet

October 20, 2009

Random sightings galore: Matt Ross (Alby Grant of HBO's Big Love) was spotted at Pizzaiolo. Another reader writes, "For all your subscribers who are also fans of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (I know I love it!), Amber Tamblyn (who plays Tibby) [had] shots of Jager…
Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi •
October 20, 2009
What’s Cookin’

October 20, 2009

Mreow. Actually, pffff!. Am officially cranky from these annoying allergies I've had the past few weeks. I thought they were gone, but no, achoo, they're back. As one friend posited, maybe I'm allergic to mildew. Grrrrreat, I sure picked the right city to be…
Marcia Gagliardi
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Sugar Rush
The Socialite

Sugar Rush

~SUGAR RUSH~ is back, a night of dessert tastings from the Bay Area's best restaurants, plus a silent auction, and cocktails to help support Spark's youth programs! There will be dessert tastings from Boulevard, Chez Panisse, Michael Mina, Millennium, Range, Recchiuti Confections, Sibby's Cupcakery,…
Marcia Gagliardi
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