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Food and Light: Best Workshop Ever

Jul 2 by Anita 21 Comments

I've been playing hooky from work and blogging the last few days to enjoy bucketfuls of sunshine, outrageously good food, and the company of some of the most talented bloggers around. The Food and Light Photography Workshop, organized by Jen of use real butter in collaboration with Helen of Tartelette and Todd and Diane of […]...

Filed Under: Events, Photography, Travel

{Product Review} A Pocketful of Peaches

Jun 21 by Anita 29 Comments

Like many a baker, gadgets are my Achilles heel. And I’ve noticed that all the cooking stores are getting better and better at pumping out cute little tools and machines that illuminate previously-unknown voids in your kitchen inventory. My saving graces are that I don’t have a kitchen the size of Martha Stewart’s, nor do […]...

Filed Under: Fruit, Pastry, Recipes, Reviews, Tools

{SF} Wall of Cupcakes

Jun 17 by Anita Leave a Comment

Cupcake display at Cako. Very modern pop-art-ish. The lemon raspberry cupcake was a winner. Cako 211 O’Farrell Street San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 404-7303...

Filed Under: San Francisco, Sweet Spots Tagged With: cupcakes

{SF} Ice Cream Tour, Stop 3

Jun 13 by Anita Leave a Comment

Salvation on a sweltering summer day at Tara’s Organic Ice Cream: Black sesame ice cream, nutty and fragrant. Not pictured but equally ambrosial: strawberry rose ice cream, like tasting a garden in full bloom. Tara’s Organic Ice Cream 3173 College Ave Berkeley, CA 94705 (510) 655-5014...

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{SF} Ice Cream Tour, Stop 2

Jun 13 by Anita Leave a Comment

Bacon peanut brittle at that most avant-garde of ice cream parlors in SF, Humphry Slocombe. The szechuan strawberry sorbet left our mouths pleasantly tingling, like we had eaten peppery snowflakes. Humphry Slocombe 2790 Harrison St San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 550-6971...

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{SF} Ice Cream Tour, Stop 1

Jun 13 by Anita Leave a Comment

New ice cream store in Dogpatch with a tongue-teaser of a name: Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous. Highly recommend the Chocolate Malt Crunch with Valrhona chocolate pearls.   Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous 699 22nd St (between Illinois St & 3rd St) San Francisco, CA 94107 (415) 970-0750...

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Anita Chu, also known as pastrygirl, is a baker, writer, and photographer with a passion for pastry. She trained at Tante Marie's Cooking School and is the author of Field Guide to Cookies, Field Guide to Candy, and Lollipop Love. Anita lives in San Francisco with her husband, daughter, and dog Max. More about pastrygirl

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