Bay area Bliss!!

Bi- Rite market sells them but my friend Julie PICKS them ...chanterelles ahhh!!!

Nancy Oakes

http://www.boulevardrestaurant.com/chef.html

and my friend Beth Strakian

http://www.sonic.net/beths/about_beth.htm

...2 of the best chefs in San Francisco..here beth does rolls

and Beth and Rob make Paella in Bolinas...

4th of July in Bolinas and the next morning Robs eggs with tortillas

Crab Feast to raise money for Marin Organic "Bring forth the New Year Party"

best bar in San Francisco...Alembic on Haight Street

Delfina in the Mission serves 'fries with eyes'

Zuni Cafe's roast chicken with fried bread and sultanas and greens is the best dish in SF bar none

Best Pizza in San Francisco ...a very tough decision.... at Pizetta 211..their Marguerita with anchovies and dollops of Pistou!!!

Delarosa has the best root salad and cocktails

Cafe Fanny in Berkeley is a favorite..

.but nothing beats the view

and BBQing at home!!

Fishing eating and seeing some skirt in Scotland

The Highland games in Ardross, very serious

I could eat one of those bacon baps too...

Head to Sutherland game to pick up lunch for one day...

The mushrooms are picked that morning and grilled for lunch with sausages from the butcher in Bonar Bridge on the fire pit at the bothy by the river..

May skip the cullen skink!!

Slow food in the Po Valley, near Parma, Italy

Still life at Antica Corte Pallavicina

50 leaf salad from the organic 'orto' with bantam poached egg on top...courgette flower stuffed with ricotta and parmesan mousse..so delicate...,

all salumi is made on the property..chef Massimo Spigaroli is travelling next week to visit Anya Fernald, of Live Culture Company in San Francisco, to advice some slow food friends on the art of 'piggery'.

We drank wine from

The Tasca D'Almerita

a Estate in Sicily...a place I would like to visit.

Eygaliere,Provence, Bistrot du Paradou

June is the best time anywhere in the south of France, before the crowds and a perfect temperature.. Eygaliere is my favorite town in the Appilles area of Provence.

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le Bistrot du Paradou is nearer to Menerbes as in "a year in Provence" so delicious and full of old photos of french movie stars, who probably also eat there!!