Posts under ‘Food’

It’s Thanksgiving here at Chez Inadvertent, and there’s much to be grateful for.
My parents arrived Tuesday night to celebrate the holidays here, and we’ve been making our way around to various eating and drinking establishments that are favorites of mine: Shan Dong for dumplings, The Trappist for Belgian-style brews, Café Madrid for tortilla Español and [...]

When I let Amy Sherman of Cooking With Amy talk me into the Hunger Challenge, I’m going to have to be honest…I had no idea what I was in for. I mean, I’m Catholic, and besides that, I have a pretty outsized ability to beat myself up and set arbitrary rules for myself, so for [...]

Last week, Tyson Foods delivered its promised food donation to the San Francisco Food Bank. A huge thank you to all of you who went over and posted a comment to help maximize that donation — your work did, indeed, pay off.
Tyson has also posted a video with Amy Sherman of Cooking with Amy and [...]

The Eat Local Challenge has come to an end, but I don’t expect my eating habits to change much in the wake of it.
I will return to a few things I missed over the course of the month. Parmaggiano Reggiano cheese, for one thing. Wine from other regions of the world. The myriad Asian food [...]

This is the story of a friend named Sam, and how she inspired me to try something new. See, back in September, Sam pulled off an all-out (and ultimately v. successful) blitz of fundraising for Race for the Cure, setting herself what sounded like an impossible goal and then going after it with every resource [...]

I’m a huge fan of the Good Food podcast on KCRW, and have been listening to it longer than I’ve been blogging. It was one of the podcasts that kept me company on the ride back and forth between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, and while my commute is much shorter here in California, I [...]

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine from the Great State of North Carolina instant-messaged me on Facebook.
“Dude,” he said. “I’ve been catching up on your blog, and what happened to you? You’ve become a total California foodie.”
“I was born to be a total California foodie,” I said.
I was kidding, but only a little [...]

I want to assure my eating populace that I do, in fact, often eat food without thinking about it. My pants size? Proof of that fact.
That being said, welcome to October, which is the month of the Eat Local Challenge. And because I clearly can’t resist a good challenge, I’m in.
I heard about the challenge [...]

In some ways, I feel like the Hunger Challenge has taken up this entire month. I began the month thinking about issues of hunger in this community, and then I heard about the challenge, thought long and mightily about it, accomplished it, then wrote about it for almost two weeks.
I’ll admit…I’m feeling wearied by it [...]

One dollar and eight cents. That’s what I had left from my shopping trip at the beginning of the Hunger Challenge, and I’d been carrying it around all week in case of an emergency. And by emergency, I meant, a sudden and urgent need to go to McDonald’s.

I figured I could use the money either [...]