If there's one thing an undergraduate English degree from Cal gets you, it's a keen ear for poetry, even when it's disguised as a tweet. Last night, Tamale Lady ― Our Lady of Street Food ― laid down a pair worthy of the Fishouse:
The Tamale shack it's filled with steam, steamers are blasting tamelesare almost ready.... San Francico are Hungry? :)
and:
#SF come get 'em Zeitgest now stream flows from those magical coolers. :) #TamalesYou following, Dave Eggers?
Pasty bread bowls some prep cook has had his hands all up in, pulling out tufts of sourdough; cans -- two factors that've humiliated homely old chowder. Around these parts, Sam's ChowderMobile has helped walk ― er, drive ― the fish-house archetype back from a very sad place. Fridays, the seafood truck leaves its Peninsula orbit to make a weekly stop at Old Navy's offices on Terry Francois, a lonely stretch of bayfront that can feel appropriately gray and watery. While not exactly watery itself, Sam's New England classic is respectably thin, the taste gently smoky from bacon, with the mineral flavor of clams. And no detectable humiliation.
Sam's ChowderMobile Parked today (11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.) at 500 Terry Francois (at Mission Bay), (650) 712-0245
