food

Bay seniors looking for the easiest way possible to concoct a summer dessert should follow the Geezer’s directions for a richly creamy coffee ice cream: 1 cup chilled whole milk…….3/4 cup granulated sugar……..2-3 tablespoons instant espresso……2 cups chilled heavy cream……1 teaspoon vanilla Whisk together until it dissolves……Pour into ice cream machine machine.  (you can get […]

Bay seniors have understandably entrenched loyalties to certain pizzerias. Miniscule differences in the width of crusts and the depth of deep dishes loom hugely over peoples’ choices. In the Bay Area we’ve gotten way beyond pepperoni. A few years ago I would have given Berkeley’s Cheese Board my vote. Especially any time they offered their […]

Bay seniors generally have to be dragged kicking and screaming to Fisherman’s Wharf but you might get less hysterical with a visit there to the Boudin Sourdough Museum. Did you know the first loaves were baked here back in 1849? Even with all the burgeoning local bakery competition of the last few years Boudin has […]

Gringo Bay seniors are loco if they think that Cinco de Mayo is Mexican Independence Day, celebrating the battle of Puebla in 1862 where the French were defeated. You’re way off base, amigos. Mexican Independence Day is September 16. Cinco de Mayo, if fact, is barely celebrated south of the border. It’s here in the […]

Bay seniors who’ve suspected that farmers’ market prices vary according to neighborhood will have their suspicious confirmed at the Old Oakland Farmers Market, on Broadway and 9th  every Friday from 8 to 2. The Geezer saw Pink Lady Apples for 50 cents a pound, blood oranges for  $1.50 a pound, bunches of spring onions for […]

Bay seniors who are paid up members of the 1% economic elite can blow a nice chunk of change this weekend at the 2nd Annual Napa Truffle Festival. The object of everyone’s affection will be the black Perigord truffle, celebrated with an endless round of wine tastings, demos by truffle hunting canines, cooking classes and […]