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Monthly Archives: July 2008

The Best Meal I Ever Had (in China)

 
So it’s been a good two months since I’ve gotten back and I’ve had some time to mull over my experiences. And while I’d like to spill them all into writing…I realize (as usual) that it would be just incoherent babble without at least some measured thought. Point is, this is (hopefully) the first of [...]

The Hat – Brea, CA

Ahh, pastrami. I don’t really consider myself much of a sandwich guy, but when I do spring for one, nothing does it like hot pastrami on rye. (Or a monte cristo, but that’s another entry.) Yes, it is one of my most favored of sandwich meats, yet also one of my least understood. Embarrassingly, I [...]

The Blue Box Blues

I saw these suckers in the Chronicle a while back and after a cursory glance, I decided to go hunting for them at my local Safeway.

A sure sign of the apocalypse. At your local grocery store.