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I love these photos

Neat slideshow.

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I found this article to be really personally inspiring. It’s always good to have people around that will push you cooking skills to the next level, and will appreciate the craft and love that goes into making slow dishes.

A new kind of preservation society attends a D.I.Y. dinner party in Oakland.

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On Fire is an awesome awesome album. Give it a spin.

Before their breakup at the dawn of the 90s, the dream-pop trio Galaxie 500 recorded three studio albums of hazy, shimmery indie rock and inspired a couple of generations of reverb abusers. When they broke up, they spawned a pair of almost-as-great groups, Luna and Damon & Naomi.

And now, for the first time in years, we can experience all three Galaxie 500 albums in their original format. As Stereogum reports, every Galaxie 500 album is once again available on vinyl.

The band has launched a web store for the vinyl reissues of Today, On Fire, and This Is Our Music. All three albums are available in various different pricing tiers, from the .99 single-album digital downloads to the .99 all-three-albums super vinyl deluxe / digital download / T-shirt package. The reissues, which will ship on July 6, come with bonus tracks and music videos.

Also, the Dean & Britta website is offering Galaxie 500’s 1990 single “Fourth of July” for free download to anyone willing to submit an email address.

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Shared for the Little Skillet shout out. Biscuits and sausage gravy is one of my favorite things in the world. I hope this place doesn’t disappoint.

I don’t really need to explain why this week’s issue is royally abridged—things are heatin’ up in manuscript land. Or at least are gettin’ heavy. The first part of my manuscript is due Monday… eep. May stress-related temporary blindness or carpal tunnel syndrome be things I’ve only heard about.

Anyway, I was fired up to learn from a couple readers that tablehopper won “Best Bay Area Scoop” in the San Francisco Magazine The Best of the Bay Area 2009: Readers’ Poll! Had I been able to attend last week’s Best of the Bay party, I might have learned this myself. Glad someone is out there partying and reading on my behalf. Thanks for the votes, yo! Charmed.

One small break I had from burning up my keyboard (no joke, the comma and “A” buttons currently need to be replaced) was filming my first Eye On The Bay segment with Liam Mayclem on Friday. We did a full-tilt, no-tables-but-much-hopping tour around town, scouting out street food. It was like a five-hour lunch.

Photo: chicken and waffle from Little Skillet.

Our first stop was Kitchenette in Dogpatch (uh, if you ever see the Lexington-style pork BBQ sandwich on the daily menu, drop everything and head over there, stat); we snarfed some chicken and waffles (and biscuits and sausage gravy and red velvet cupcakes and shrimp po’boys and bacon-wrapped waffle dogs) at Little Skillet; then headed off for a sneak preview of Carte 415 (the croque monsieur is one of those sandwiches you have to suspend fat gram belief over if you’re going to enjoy it—which I did); and finished with some fully-loaded Chicago dogs at Da Beef.

The entire afternoon was like an episode of When Animals Attack. I’d love to have Liam as my wingman in a professional tag-team dining competition; in the ring, his trademark move would be unleashing some “Mayclem Mayhem.” Meanwhile, I’d be responsible for the “tablehopper Hoover Maneuver.” Sunday Sunday Sunday! Anyway, I’ll let you know when it’s about to air, (naturally) we had a blast.

Otherwise my nose has either been to the grindstone, or in a menu. Last week was yet another tour de force(meat): a sunset dinner at Sutro’s at the Cliff House, drinks and dinner at the bar at Michael Mina (did you know you can order a la carte off the tasting menu at the bar?), a slam-dunk meal at Contigo (can’t wait to have the sardines and avocado on toast again), an intimate dinner at Olea (perfect for a quiet date or tête a tête), some killer chilaquiles at Los Pastores, and eggs Benedict while Sunday brunching on the oh-so-civilized garden patio at Magic Flute. Oh yeah, and revisits to Firefly and Street for my fried chicken tour, plus Globe, and Brazenhead. I’m gonna have to go to a fat farm when this manuscript is turned in, mamma mia.

And now, this week’s issue of tablehopper lite: easy on your eyes, and the clock.

Have a Happy Fourth of July this weekend—may your briquettes burn evenly, your burgers be juicy, and your fleece remain in the closet.

Ciao/kapow!
~Marcia

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Looking forward to a catchy swine flu ditty on his next album.

Jens Lekman has contracted the H1N1 virus, which you might know as “swine flu”. The pop auteur, who got the virus while on tour in South America earlier this month, is recovering back home in Sweden right now. (via Inkiostro)

Lekman revealed his illness on his blog. Apparently, he first started feeling sick on the flight home from Chile. That sounds like a hellish experience, but Lekman seems pretty laid back about the whole thing:

“I picked home one last souvenir from South America, it’s called the H1N1 virus. Wrongfully known as the Swineflue.

Now I’m in quarantine for ten days. I can see the summer through my window and it’s just perfect. Summer is always best through a window.

Lekman is still scheduled to play Norway’s Træna Festival next month, as well as a pair of shows in Portugal.

A celebrity like Apple CEO Steve Jobs scores a rare organ transplant and the world wonders: Did he game the system? The rich have plenty of advantages that others don’t. But winning the “transplant lottery” involves more than the size of your wallet — and true medical need.

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Hip-Hip-Hurray!!!

The plan will go ahead, folks. It seems that 15 or so minutes ago, according to a source, the SFMTA Board of Directors “unanimously voted to adopt The SF Bike Plan.” And while not every one of the 60 or so projects will get done — there are at least 15 still “on the back burner/needing further study and community input,” yada, yada, uada — all systems are a go. However, they removed the 2nd Street idea because “it would remove left turn lanes and received huge neighborhood and resident opposition.

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PB&J is Back!

This Saturday we’ll celebrate Pride 2009 with a veritable sausagefest and a few bearded oysters. In addition to tasteless jokes we’ll also have some tasty MSF classics and a dollar off drinks if you were in the parade.

MSF profts will go to the LGBT Center’s Youth Meal program which provides a “nourishing meal and a welcome environment” for LGBT youths.

MENU:

Bearded Oysters: Hama Hama oysters with lemon-cucumber granita and wakame

Sausage Fest: braised sausage “corndog” with onion marmalade and caper aioli – .5

Eggplant Tempura with shitake, pickled ginger, edamame puree, truffle vinaigrette –

Rare Ahi with foie gras, avocado, fried nori, sesame crackers –

Benton’s Bacon, apricot and watercress on griddled sourdough with goat cheese creme fraiche – .5

Duck Taco Dorado: Duck Confit cucumber, hoisin salsa, cilantro, queso fresco, crispy tortilla –

PB & J: Berkshire Kurobuta Pork Belly with marinated jicama, pickled jalapeno and cilantro aioli – .5

Lung Shan’s Vegan Delight: Shitake and Oyster mushroom dumplings in miso soup – .5

Apricot-Cherry Trifle topped with Mascarpone –

Scoop of Humphry Slocombe Secret Breakfast ice cream – .25

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There are bad surprises (MJ dying) but there are also good surprises (this).

Surprise! The good kind, which I think we all could use. We’ve heard nothing, but thanks to a tip we’ve got some basics to relay: Spoon is releasing three songs under the project title Got Nuffin on Tuesday 6/30. Track titles include “Tweakers,” “Stroke Their Brains,” and of course “Got Nuffin.” For now, you can preview all three at Amazon: the title track sounds like a dusky, percussive rocker about darkness and shadows, “Tweakers” sounds like a lo-fi demo of a closet bucket-drum session or something, and “Stroke Their Brains” sounds like it’s from the brains of the Strokes. Head over and listen, and we’ll update with more info when we get it.