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Yes we did! Congratulations to America for our sexy new President-Elect. Our suggested victory meal—without the Obama Waffles, thank you very much—is as follows:
•Obama Family Chili [Huffington Post]
•Savory Obama Pie With Butterfish and Coconut Milk [The Nest]
•Michelle Obama's Apple Cobbler [The Yankee]
•Michelle Obama's Shortbread Cookies [Parents]
•Obama Espresso Cognac Truffles [Cosmic Chocolate]
Bon appétit!
—Tamara Palmer
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•Bipartisan dumplings [Bay Area Bites]
•Gentler food via Prop 2 [EaterSF]
•Warm restaurants [SFGate]
•Absurdly expensive sushi [Yelp/EaterSF/SFist]
—Tamara Palmer
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By Ella Lawrence
I haven’t talked about one of the most important things in a cellar yet: the way things smell. Making wine is so sensual. Without all the touching, smelling, and tasting of the fermenting grapes we would never know what is happening as they journey toward becoming a finished wine.
Now that harvest is over, we are focused solely on taking care of the numerous bins that are filling up the cellar floor. Twice a day I haul myself from tank to tank to tank, starting with the ones that are not yet fermenting. The six tanks are packed in so tightly together that I swing my legs from one to the other like a monkey. The first tank is the hardest to get into--at 8am the last thing I want to do is strip down to some tiny shorts and sink my legs up to the upper thigh in a freezing cold vat of scratchy, itchy, sticky grape juice.
Tablehopper tipped us off to Dine Out and Donate, an initiative hosted by the local non-profit StreetSmarts4Kids that we'd like to support, too. Now through November 16, eat out at one of the many participating restaurants (a wide variety, from Ace Wasabi's to Zarzuela), make a cash donation of at least $3 and it will all be donated to SS4K's chosen causes: Huckleberry Youth Programs, La Casa de las Madres and Larkin Street Youth Services. —Tamara Palmer
