7+ hour, 28+ min ago  (1399+ words) There is a specific kind of San Francisco day that only ramen can fix; the kind of foggy cold that calls for a bowl of pork-bone broth the temperature of a hot tub. I have had that day roughly four…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (234+ words) This week is Passover, a holiday I've almost never observed except in my own home in San Francisco. (And I have stories about that.) Passover runs eight days this year, from the evening of April 1 through April 9. You eat matzah....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (189+ words) North Beach is the neighborhood where you go to sit outside, watch people walk by, and eat something good without making a whole production out of it. The sidewalks are wider than they have any right to be, the side…...