Category Archives: addictive food shrine

The Celebration of Garlic

July 25, 2010 – 4:00 pm

The people of Gilroy threw their annual big bash this weekend, in which they celebrate all things garlic with the 32nd annual Garlic Festival.  It’s one of the largest food festivals in the United States with over 100,000 devotees of the stinking rose gathering together for the three day celebration.  According to wikipedia, Gilroy’s nickname [...]

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Jucy Lucys at Matt’s Bar in Minneapolis

July 16, 2010 – 7:07 am

3500 Cedar Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN  55407 | 612.722.7072 | website Do you know what a Jucy Lucy is?  It is a Minnesotan delicacy, a cheeseburger constructed from two thin ground beef patties that are sealed together with the cheese on the inside.  The Jucy Lucy along with hotdish casseroles, fried things on a stick [...]

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The Front Porch Bucket with a scoop of Ice Cream

July 12, 2010 – 9:20 pm

65a 29th St, SF, CA 94110 | 415.695.7800 | website It would be really easy to miss this restaurant because if you didn’t know any better, you might think someone was having a garage sale or frontyard bbq…  The driveway has been converted into a open air porch where you can hang out and enjoy [...]

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an elusive foodhoe sighting…

July 12, 2010 – 11:17 am

Ahhh, remember the Lobster Jook at Hing Lung Restaurant in San Francisco? A few months back I wrote about introducing a tv crew to the joys of eating jook for an upcoming PBS show called Breakfast Special. Read all about it here, or better yet, you can watch it this Wednesday, July 14th at 8 [...]

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Epic feasting at Hog Island

June 16, 2010 – 10:02 pm

Recently we  had a lovely picnic at Hog Island oyster farm in Tomales Bay, although for the first time ever I only had a few oysters on the half shell and just a single one from the grill….  How could this be you wonder?  Were we not at the fabled source of delicious oysters in [...]

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