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Where can I find "Profumo di Genova" basil? Seeds, plants, leaves - anybody got a source?
Anglo Philia
Those words do not describe a naughty predilection. It just means that I love England and never more than last month when I spent a few days on the moors of the Peak District, Derbyshire, hiking with my friend Graham and spending huge sums of money on memorable, if...
Flashpoint!
And another thing......I'm not the only Santa Cruz resident who has to think twice about going to dinner or movies downtown. Problem is — the two hour parking meters, each one of which is attached to a predatory meter "person" with a stop watch. How the hell are we...
Zeffirino – a Genovese Landmark
A few weeks ago I joined two vivacious residents of Rome (one from the US, the other originally from Canada) for a meal of stellar regional cuisine and old-fashioned, unapologetically attentive service at Zeffirino, a celebrated Genoa dining room since 1939. Utterly...
Riviera Dining
Frutti di mare - "fruit of the sea" - Italian really does have a zesty way of describing the world. Well, seafood - especially calamari, octopus and shrimps - was on every menu I found during my trip to Genoa and the Italian Riviera last week. The first night, I...
First Thoughts on Genoa
It will take another week to sort through all of my tasting notes from the recent week in Genoa, but I can state my case in a single word — pesto. Here on the beyond beautiful Ligurian coast of Italy, pesto isn't remotely like the rather tedious glop of green-tinged...
Serious Sausage
Justin Severino is an old-fashioned food maverick. The former chef - Bernardus, Manresa - is currently into handcrafted charcuterie and traditionally butchered meats. Primarily pork, which he gets from pastured, free-roaming pigs raised on TLC Ranch. What Severino...
Brownie Scout
And who isn't on the look-out for some chewy, tender, deeply rich, barely sweet chocolate brownie? Even in a field littered with killer brownies, one stands out bigtime. Yes, I do mean the heavy, yet tender, intensely dark chocolatey brownie from River Cafe (also...
Chocolate Chronicles
Cocoa d'Arriba is yet another designer chocolate bar, priced at just under $3 and situated near enough to the check out lanes to tempt even the St. Anthony's among us. We succumbed. At 77% cocoa and inflected with orange liqueur, this elite treat is ultra smooth and...
Last Week @ Avanti: Read the comments!
Grilled sea scallops on a bed of Israeli cous cous, with ultra fresh snap peas and fava beans, micro bits of Meyer lemon all tossed in olive oil and Meyer lemon juice, with nano-strips of fresh basil. It is literally the month of May on a plate. Thanks to Avanti chef...