Since it's Labor Day, we thought we'd hype the non-SFoodie labors of two of our contributors. Hey guys: Nice, um, work.
Just looking: In September's Wine Enthusiast, SFoodie contributor Andrew Simmons shuffles around Kyoto, including stops at the diminutive taverns Pretty Space and Bar Mushroom and Rasta, for glimpses of "fetching weirdness."
Cheapsilog: In the Examiner online, Hoodscope's Gene Miguel (another SFoodie blogger) fills up on a good-'n'-greasy Filipino breakfast at Superstar in the Excelsior. Baconsilog anyone?
Tasting notes: Nice 'n soft. Despite containing peanut halves, the Zebra aren't very peanut buttery, but the chocolate dipped part is sufficiently rich.
Buy it again? Yes.
Extra credit: The company's full trademarked name is La Graziosa, The Grateful Cookie.
Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst is this year's selection for One City One Book, and program organizers asked Blue Bottle to come up with a special coffee that mirrors the book's nuances. Alive is set in San Francisco and the cemeteries of Colma, and has a rich cast, including ghosts who take in a whodunit.
"To be fair," Blue Bottle's Web site explains, "the Gayo Supreme is big-bodied and blunt-nosed. But just as Chandler [we're thinking they meant to say Dorst] really wrote about why people would kill, more than the fact that they did, this particular Sumatran coffee is really more about nuance. Raisins, port, and the sweet earthiness of the candy cap mushroom all ooze out of this coffee. For the full experience, we urge you to try it with the blueberry cornmeal donut that Dynamo Donuts is baking for the Friends of the Library."
Sumatra Gayo Supreme ($19.75 per pound) is available weekends at Blue Bottle kiosks, or get your fix online 24/7.
Labor Day. You're the only sucker you know who isn't wake-and-baking on the Playa, embarked on a Danish Modern chair quest in Palm Springs with your partner, or sitting in a warm bath of kombucha at some hot springs near Mendocino. But you've got one thing your buddies don't: access to pie. Like, really good pie. Start with a chicken or Indian-style vegan pot pie, throw in a little Mediterranean wheat and veggie salad for roughage, and end with a slice of end-of-summer peach, or beginning-of-fall pink apple galette: Mission Pie, 2901 Mission (at 25th St.), 282-1500.
