Travel and Food

San Francisco cookbooks reflect city’s diversity

By Oliver B. Pollak SAN FRANCISCO — Erica Peters, author of San Francisco, A Food Biography (2013) and Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam Food and Drink in the Long Nineteenth Century (2012), gave a presentation at San Francisco’s three-year-old, gorgeously designed, American Bookbinders Museum in the Yerba Buena district, wedged in between Clementina and Folsom

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food

Dance, carvings, geysers high points of Maori village

Editor’s Note: This is the 20th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego.  Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and Food

‘Fattitude’ tells the plight of heavy-body people

By Sheldon F. Merel ENCINITAS, California –I recently watched the documentary film Fattitude at the ArcLight Theatre in La Jolla. The film is by Lindsey Averill and Viridiana Lieberman, and sponsored by the Women’s Museum in San Diego. It is a graphic portrayal how fat people are ridiculed in our society. It exposes how pop

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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Name changes helped kiwifruit growers, architect

Editor’s Note: This is the 19th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego.  Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food

Diverse diners bid adieu to beloved restaurant

By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — Salute, an Italian restaurant in Marina Bay, lost its lease under parlous circumstances and closed. On the last two days they prepared hundreds of free last suppers. It was crowded. The valet parking area was overwhelmed. Our table seated five Jews and one son of a Nazi. All

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food, USA