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Looks tasty!! A local girl I know jumped into the SD bread and desserts arena this year. Shes selling out like crazy at farm markets and her own stand plus supplying the popular local restaurant.
Several years ago I was working with a client on a long term project in the Bay area, and commuting there a couple times a month from my home base in Chicago. If time allowed, I would swing by Tartine in route to the airport and pick up a loaf or two to bring home.
Now that the market is about to close, do you have other outlets for your bread?
Tartine, is my favorite bakery in SF by far, second would be Acme.
I worked in the Mission for many yrs, it seemed like I was in Tartine at least twice a week.
We have an Acme about 30 minutes from the house in Berkeley, CA, as well as their SF bakery. Their S.D. and S.D Grandma's pizza is to die for. I'll go grab 4 to 6 S.D's and eat 2 corner slices on the way home, it makes sitting in Bay Area traffic so much easier.
I GO BACK TO THE DAYS OF PAISANO AND OROWHEAT IN THE BAY AREA FOR FRENCH BREAD, WOULD SCORE RIGHT OFF THE WHARF WHEN DOING REMO WORK IN THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT. SF IS MY HOMETOWN, THE TRAFFIC DOES SUCK, BUT ENJOY THAT BREAD, YOU CAN'T GET THAT FLAVOR ANYWHERE ELSE. I DON'T MISS THE TRAFFIC, JUST THE PACIFIC OCEAN. RAY
I GO BACK TO THE DAYS OF PAISANO AND OROWHEAT IN THE BAY AREA FOR FRENCH BREAD, WOULD SCORE RIGHT OFF THE WHARF WHEN DOING REMO WORK IN THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT. SF IS MY HOMETOWN, THE TRAFFIC DOES SUCK, BUT ENJOY THAT BREAD, YOU CAN'T GET THAT FLAVOR ANYWHERE ELSE. I DON'T MISS THE TRAFFIC, JUST THE PACIFIC OCEAN. RAY
Ray, then you remember Tarantino's & Alioto's on the wharf, my Noni used to be one of the owner of Tarantino's, and at one time married to one of the Alioto's. LOL!!!
I grew up in those restaurants, that is where I learned to cook, and where my passion for good food developed.
My uncles, used to work for Parisian bread Co. I'll never forget the red, white, and blue striped waxed bags. That bread was SOOOO F'N good!!!
Man do I miss those days, I wish I would've paid closer attention to the Chef's working in those restaurants, I was pretty young back then, just a kid really. The Chef's used to make me work off my meal by peeling potatoes, carrots, and scrubbing, oiling potatoes, salting them wrapping them in foil for baked potatoes. My favorite meal was a big bowl full of steamed clams, a side of butter Romano rigatoni pasta, and a half a loaf of S.D. bread, and a Coke. (And I was as thin as a rail back then, not so much these days). LOL!!!
The family that lived next door to my Noni used to own the Cliff House, I used to keep a fishing rod in a closet at the Cliff House. Along with a wooden shoebox full of silver Johnson's Spoons with a white Uncle Josh Pork'o pork rind trailer, and white Hair Raiser's to catch Stripers out'a the surf, 20 plus LB fish were common back then, not so much these days. I remember hauling three 20 plus lb fish up to the restaurant with a rope over my shoulder, Of course they didn't sell them in the restaurant.
(I still have a few of those lures kicking around).
Damn, I loved growing up in CA back then, those were the days, now I can't wait to escape the place, sad!!!
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