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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Events / Palmer Pork and Porky's Collide in the Pig Out!

Posted By on Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:10 PM

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In his never-ending quest to show creative love to the swine, Chef Ryan Farr (4505 Meats) has cooked up the Pig Out! to go along with the Coffee Bar's recurring movie nights. He will offer a live butchery demonstration of a Red Wattle Heritage pig and then cook it up on the grill and rotisserie -- all while the infamous 1981 silver screen comedy Porky's plays in the background. It will be served with charred carrots, potato and leek salad, market greens, and grilled spring veggies, with bacon/peanut butter/chocolate brownies for dessert. The Pig Out! takes place on Sunday, May 3 at Coffee Bar (1890 Bryant at Mariposa). Tickets are $35 per person, which includes a choice of Big Daddy IPA or Balletto Pinot Noir to drink (as well as creative caffeinated offerings from Coffee Bar). The butchery demo, drinking, and chicharrones snacking starts at 3 p.m., with the buffet dinner to follow at 6 p.m. Email pigoutcoffeebar@gmail.com to make a reservation.

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Global Pantry: Corbezzolo Honey

Posted By on Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:01 PM

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At the end of a long, delightfull suckling pig feast at La Ciccia last fall, chef Massimiliano Conti served us a plate of Sardinian sheep's cheese with Sardinian honey. Such pairings usually do nothing for me--I find the cheese diminished by the honey's cloying sweetness-- but this was an exception.

The honey tasted like dark caramel spiked with coffee and chocolate, and was delicious with the cheese, or just by itself. When we asked about it, Conti brought out a jar (shown at right). After a long conversation in which we learned that the bees that produce it gather the nectar from a plant called corbezzolo, and that the honey is one of the items he brings back himself on his trips home, he gave us a jar as a gift. (Thanks again, signore.)

Googling "corbezzolo" found that the plant is Arbutus unedo, a type of heather commonly called strawberry tree, Killarney strawberry, or cane apple. Google also turned up a 1996 Atlantic article by Corby Kummer, who liked it the best of various Italian wildflower honeys he tried on a visit to beekeepers around Italy. I found a couple of online sources for the stuff, plus one local retailer, AG Ferrari. Here are my notes on a comparative tasting:

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Bread / Lauriston / Meat / Shopping Royal Market & Bakery: Everything Armenian

Posted By on Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:01 AM

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Outside of a Church festival every October at St. John Etchmiadzin, San Francisco has been fairly deprived of Armenian food. No more: since last July, Royal Market & Bakery (5335 Geary between 17th & 18th) has been offering a wide variety of products imported from Armenia, plus items from countries with similar cuisines, such as Georgia and Turkey.

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On the grocery front, Royal has dairy products including kefir and cheeses, herring and other pickled fish, fresh and smoked fish, fresh meat including veal tongue and lamb's tounge and testicles, and seasoned meat (shown above) ready to be skewered and grilled for kebabs. The deli offers a wide variety of salads, pickles, olives, sausages, smoked meats, and prepared foods made in-house.

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