#131 | All the Yum Yums Baby!
Recipe: Carajillo Granita
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Plum Blossom Plum Jam
plum blossom plum jam even the tree becomes something more than a skeleton longing for the sky
—June Jordan, from Haruko, 1993. Jordan taught at UC Berkeley for many years and founded Poetry for the People. The June Jordan School for Equity public high school in the Excelsior District is named for her.
Hey there - I'm Bruce Cole, Publisher of Edible San Francisco. If you’re new here, welcome to Eat.Drink.Think., a newsletter spotlighting seasonal recipes, the latest SF Bay Area food news, poetry, and more!
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Sneak Peek From Our Next Issue: Christian Reynoso’s recipe for Carajillo granita, just in time to beat the incoming heat wave (we’ll believe it when we see it 🌞). Imagine having that sweet treat right in your freezer, just chillin’, waiting for you and your spoon. Edible SF
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All the Yum Yums Baby! Tom Shimura, aka Lyrics Born, the rapper whose song I Changed My Mind was at the top of everyone’s playlist back in 2005, makes a Japanese convenience store-style three-egg salad sandwich with chef Chris Cosentino. It’s part of his 'Dinner In Place' YouTube series that features local chefs and artists making meals. 48 Hills
💚 My Mother’s Posthumous Pesto: Viola Buotoni shares her mother’s signature pesto recipe from her upcoming book, Italy by Ingredient: Artisanal Foods, Modern Recipes, (Rizzoli USA, September 2023). Pre-order your copy here! Appetito Magazine
🔥 Wish List: We’ve wanted to get one of those diatomite clay grills to cook satay, yakitori, and anything else on a skewer because you can never have too many grill options, right? Andrea Nyugen beat us to it and takes hers for a test run in Easy Asian Grill Summer: Charcoal Braziers, Yakitori Sauce plus 3 Grilling Recipes. We love the videos that accompany her posts too! Pass the Fish Sauce
Nope: Sheetpan Pancakes? Washington Post (gift article)
🫒: When Did Olives Become the Party? Grubstreet
🧊 Cubes to Go: Carlos Yturria, acclaimed bartender and co-owner of one of our favorite bars, White Cap (3608 Taraval at 46th), and also the Treasury (201 Bush #101, at Sansome), is set to open Deep Water Ice in Portreo Hill, specializing in crystal clear slabs, spears and cubes. SF Chronicle (gift article)
Got Mo🥛: Milk is being dumped into the sewage system in Wisconsin because demand for the traditional beverage is declining; after all, kids are popping cans and bottles of everything but milk these days. "It's enough to gag a maggot," exclaimed Peter Hardin, editor of the dairy industry rag, The Milkweed. Fox 6 Now
The Sad State of Alaska’s Disappearing King Salmon: Maybe we should just stop eating King Salmon to save it? New York Times (gift article)
Related: Have we reached peak fish? We’re eating more seafood from the ocean at a far greater rate than they can reproduce. Should we just stop eating seafood all together? The Guardian
Then there’s this 🤔:
Taking Recipes to Their Grave, Literally:
Snack Tray: “Why is the bulk of domestic labor still split unevenly in partnerships, often by gender lines? Why don’t we tell our partners to fuck off more, because we just wanna eat a tray of olives and pickles and potato chips?” From the desk of Alicia Kennedy
Related: Is It a Meal? A Snack? No, It’s ‘Girl Dinner.’ New York Times (gift article)
It Was All Yellow: “Traders in Bangladesh used lead chromate to enhance the spice’s appearance. Then scientists and policymakers stepped in (lead chromate is a chemical used in paints too, it makes school buses yellow, and it can enhance the radiance of turmeric roots, making them more attractive to buyers).” Undark.org
🚜 Horizontal Farming Beats Vertical Farming Every Time: Yet another vertical farming company, AppHarvest, whose claim that their high-tech indoor farms grew up to 30 times more produce with up to 90% less water, has filed for bankruptcy. Progressive Grocer
🎟 Step Right Up! And see how the sausage is made. A 1976 film by Frederick Wiseman tracks livestock through the entire journey from feedlot to hamburger patty. “The slaughterhouse scenes are graphic, but this is no outraged exposé: it is a clear-eyed account of the making, selling and marketing of the meat that so many of us eat every day.” Barbican.org
⚓️🍺 Update: Sapporo rebuffed the Anchor Brewing Union in its bid to purchase the company. SF Standard
On Repeat This Week
As the familiar twinkling lights illuminate the stage of the KEXP studios, the Screaming Females crank out a rollicking dirge from their latest album that Chris Richard of the Washington Post says “implies that the other side of nothingness sounds like Led Zeppelin and Thin Lizzy dancing a cosmic waltz.”
That’s all for this week.
We’re outta here. Be well and take care,
—Bruce
“There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.”
—Gary Snyder