UPDATE (6/25): The County Fair has been canceled and all refunds have been taken care of.
Original entry (6/19): Where's the MoveOn.org petition to get county fairs to improve food fare once and for all? Although corn dogs and funnel cakes still give us the warm and fuzzies, we've also trapped ourselves into eating sad fried goods paired with lukewarm, gristly cheesesteak amid the buzzing rides, crowds, and too-cute animals. Until the petition of our summer food dreams comes to fruition, we'll consider getting our homey country grub fix via an outing on Sunday, June 30 to the County Fair Conductive Education Center of San Francisco (CECSF) fundraising shindig at Pizzaiolo in Oakland.
Samin Nosrat is the emcee, and the food is definitely a draw. There will also be bales of hay to play on, as well as cocktails, Kermit Lynch wine, Linden Street Brewery beer, face painting, balloon animals, caramel apples, snow cones, live music, and kid crafts.
If you've been around long enough, you start to catalog the past lives that certain spaces have had when you see them in a new incarnation. Walking through the dining room of ROKA AKOR to the stairs to reach the downstairs bar, I was struck by the sudden realization that though I had been inside that space before as Zinnia and Scott Howard, this was not a place I knew anymore.
See also: Exploring the New Cocktail Menus at Rickhouse and Blackbird
Attention, 90's kids who are also really into agriculture: Something amazing has happened on the Internet, and it is an agricultural parody of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song from a trio of young Kansas farmers. Called "A Fresh Breath of Farm Air," the video hits all the important notes of the Will Smith original, with a farming twist.
Sample lyric: In central Kansas, born and raised. On the family farm is where we spend most of our days. Chilling out, feeding cattle morning and night, and doctorin' the ones who aren't feeling all right.
See also: Seeds of Evolution: Hayes Valley Farm Wasn't the End of Urban Agriculture in S.F.
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