The Unofficial Dried Pasta of stlbites.com
Jan 1, 2010 cooking, groceries
Short of that scene in The Godfather where Michael whacks Sollozzo after going to the lavatory and pulling the pistol out from behind the toilet with the totally sweet, gravity-fed, pull chain flusher, Francis Ford Coppola is not a name most people would associate with pasta. As it turns out, however, along with his wine and olive oil businesses, Coppola owns Mammarella–a company that specializes in pastas and pasta sauces. While I won’t (or don’t) condone the use of store bought pasta sauces because it’s just too easy to make your own, dried pasta, on the other hand, is a staple in most of our homes and, hands down, my favorite is Mammarella’s Farfallone.
Tags: bathroom, Farfallone, Fra ncis Ford Coppola, Mammarella, pasta sauces, restrooms, Straub's
Peet’s Coffee, Berkeley, CA
Sep 16, 2008 general food
Cloned cow leg in a vat of nutritive fluid.
-Yuba
Bathroom graffiti in the Peet’s* coffee down the street from Chez Panisse.
* Hell no, I did not drink their coffee.
Tags: bathroom, Bay Area, Berkeley, California, graffiti, Peet's, random
From the mountains of Panama and Ethiopia, to the urban-jungles of Portland and Chicago, journalist Michaele Weissman takes us behind the scenes for a look at the world of third-wave specialty coffee. How did we get to Starbucks, and where we go from here?