On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Brad De Long wrote:
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> Oh, things could get worse. I remember one meeting where a bunch of people
> were clustered around the market screens waiting for the Federal Reserve to
> raise interest rates, while one assistant secretary described to another
> the squid stuffed with lavender he had eaten the previous night...
You are lying about the squid stuffed with lavender. That is an impossible combination. I've been sitting here for 20 minutes trying to imagine such a thing, and I cannot (I used to be a line cook/sous chef) I have never seen a recipe for any kind of sea-food and flowers.
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> But let me defend the honor of Berkeley: "foofy food masquerading as
> progressive politics" indeed! I've never yet heard anyone claim that going
> to Chez Panisse transforms anything other than your stomach...
I LOVE berkeley and its foofy foods. I still get coffee from Peets. But Alice Waters (Chez P) does talk politics and food. She has sort of a bioregional, "environmentalist" view of food, organic, locally grown etc... She runs some prison gardening program--organic veg & herbs, of course. When the Dalai Lama was in San F. a couple of years ago, he ate at Chez. I was across the street at the Cheese Board (which closes for May Day) and saw him & his entourage. (he had lamb for lunch.) It was surreal. I like Chez P. I took myself there for dinner on my 26th b-day. Alone on a Sat. night. It was an extraordinary meal.
There's lots of political food in Berk. The Cheese Board, the juice
place on Walnut near Vine, the Farmers Market... There's all kinds of
sloganeering at the Farmers Market.
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> Andronicos, however, is very close to my image of food distribution in a
> socialist utopia--with one exception: those pesky cash registers up at the
> front of the store...
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oooh. Andronicos. These days I reside in a town where even the grocers in
yuppie areas don't have arugula. Seeing the produce here after the berk.
Bowl made me cry... >
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