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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Restaurant Supply Part 3: K Doving Food Equipment

Posted By on Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:01 PM

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K Doving Food Equipment (1171 Folsom St) is the place in SF when you need to have professional kitchen equipment such as slicers and heavy-duty mixers (which you can buy at Forest or Economy) serviced or repaired. It also has a selection of used equipment, including the KitchenAid stand mixers popular among serious home cooks, and one of the best selections of cutlery in town. Now I finally know where to buy those meat hacksaws better butchers use. (Click the images for larger versions.)

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Weird-Ass Beer of the Week: Siamese Twin Ale

Posted By on Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:01 AM

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Santa Cruz's Uncommon Brewers is a rarity among micro-breweries in that its beer is canned rather than bottled. That makes the brewery's Siamese Twin Ale doubly rare: it's made with lemongrass, coriander, and kaffir lime leaves, which, if not completely original, is, I'm pretty sure, the first such brew to be commercialized.

Despite these unusual spices, the beer at first encounter seems like a fairly conventional Belgian-style double: brown, malty, strong (8.5%), and slightly sweet--not too different from the Afflingen Dobble and Anderson Valley Brother David's Double I usually keep on hand. The big difference comes in the slightly bitter, assertively spicy finish.

This tasty local beer is priced quite competitively, at least at City Beer, where I found it. Each $3 can is 16 ounces, which is to say, one pint. Brother David's and Afflingen come in 22 ounce bottles, and my most recent purchases cost me $6.50 and $7 respectively, which works out to around $5 a pint. See uncommonbrewers.com for other places to find Siamese Twin and Uncommon Brewers' other organic beers, both in cans and on tap.

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Vegan Eats: Kaia Foods' Cocoa Bliss Raw Granola

Posted By on Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:00 AM

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Granola is almost a misnomer for this pleasant offering from San Francisco-based Kaia Foods. The blend of organic buckwheat, pumpkin seeds, raisins, and dried coconut creates a much more pleasant crispiness than the typical oat-rolled granola variety. It would also not fare too well in a cereal bowl with milk (or appropriate vegan substitute), though it does make a good breakfast.

Sweetened with agave nectar, it's also sweet enough without going overboard or having a funny aftertaste. Also available in "dates and spices" and raisin cinnamon flavors, this was found for $7.99 at The Nature Stop (1336 Grant).

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