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Going into Business with Emma Goldman
A pamphlet-release event on the evening of Tuesday November 5 at 5:30 at the Roadhouse. How the ideas of an anarchist who died 42 years before we opened the Deli have had a huge influence … Continued
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Roasted Vegetables with Cajun Blackening Spices
Here’s one great recipe from the de Vienne family of Épices de Cru fame. Easy and excellent! Our friend Sylviane is a fantastic cook who, like the rest of us, is known to forget things … Continued
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Chicken Hill Black Pepper from India
In his terrific, if also terrifically obscure, little book, Tastes of Paradise, the German historian Wolfgang Schivelbusch says, “The taste for pepper [in medieval Europe] showed symptoms of having become an addiction. Once habituated to … Continued
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Roadhouse Special Dinner #241: From the Mission to the Mitten
I can’t remember when I first started dining at Delfina on 18th Street in San Francisco’s Mission District. Could likely be that I was there for the Fancy Food Show sometime in the late ’90s … Continued
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Summer Is Here: How Strong Is Your Mustard Game?
Given all of the really great goings on in the food world these days, something as seemingly simple as yellow mustard would be easy to miss. But, you won’t be shocked, I suppose, to hear … Continued