Iโm sorry to say that today is my last post for Dinner: A Love Story. This is because I visited Pixar Studios yesterday (the whole family did, actually) and if you were me, and got to see where and how these people work, you would drop everything to figure out a way that you could become a Pixar employee right exactly now. So Iโm outta here โ blogs and books and readings and this crazy nice reviewย be damned! There will be a lot more on why we were at Pixar later (itโs pretty cool) but for now, Iโd just like you to take in the lobby of building, where, yes, we saw staffers on scooters, ate from the legendary free cereal bar ย (โThe idea is that weโre all just grown-up kids,โ explained one staffer), and around every corner, ran into a familiar friendly face like Woody, Buzz, Mike, Sully, Remi, Merida, and Wall-E . We didnโt doubt they were real for one second. We never have, actually.
If you are in San Francisco this weekend, please stop by my reading at Omnivore Books at 3:00 on Saturday, July 28. Iโd love to say hello.
Have a great weekend.
P.S. You know Iโm kidding about quitting, right?
looks great. but on the guide, because I know youโd want to know and because Iโm an editor:
Aged Manchego โ you MISSING WORD at least one with some bite
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I do know that youโre kidding, of course. But while reading the first sentence, just for a second my blood ran cold. Big relief when I kept reading. No quitting!
Welcome to my city! Hope you love it (and the fog clears). Definitely check out the Exploratorium if you can, and the Academy of Science in GGPark (also just walk around the park, which has lots of playgrounds and open spaces for running around). Iโm sure youโll visit the Ferry Building and have a ton of restaurants to try โฆ I personally love Nopa and Little Star pizza and Green Chili Kitchen (and Pies), all within walking distance in my โhood (Nopa/Western Addition). Mojo Coffee for, well, coffee and snacks and bike stuff. Have fun!
Just to add another rave review of the DALS cookbook to help keep you from the welcoming arms of Pixar! I have been savoring (pun intended) every page of the book, and cooking happily from it. I should add that I am a busy middle-aged professional woman with no children. I am the cook in the household, and while I donโt need the โtempt a picky toddlerโ parts of the book, I have to say that my husbandโs very favorite dishes โ the ones he always lays his fork down to say, โwow, this is great, letโs have this againโ โ are DALS dishes. Universal appeal? Youโve got it down!
You canโt break up with the interwebs. Even if you were at Pixar. Not matter how awesome that would be.
Also, DALS is saving my sanity at the moment. As I currently canโt obsess about dinner everyday at the moment (itโs just myself and the wee one until the hubs returns from deployment), Iโm living vicariously through each chapter and post.
So, there. Donโt break up with us.
I almost never comment on blogs I read but I have to say โ that line about quitting gave me a good jolt! I need you and your dinnertime genius. Of course, if Pixar was going to turn DALS into an awesome animated filmโฆ ๐
I didnโt like you saying that you were going to quit but having been to Pixar myself (wife of a friend of my husbandโs works there), I understand the overwhelming desire to drop everything and try to figure out how to work there. Itโs amazing. *sigh*
if only i were in san francisco today! iโll be in oakland tomorrow, camping in the hills with my foodie friends, reading your book, which just arrived yesterday, and which iโm loving so far. youโre more than welcome to join us for campfire cocktails, but i must warn you, we will be waxing poetic about japanese eggplant.
Oh dear! I gasped out loud upon reading the first sentence. Thinking, โOf course, something this good wasnโt going to last. Of course, sheโs on to bigger, better things.โ Whew! What a relief it was just a day trip and not truly a career change. LOVE the blog. OBSESSED with the book.
My best friend loaned me your book for the weekend. I canโt believe I hadnโt come across your book or blog before. Have I been living in a vacuum? Obviously! I love the book so much that I ordered it straight away, I will now start stalking the mailbox. I made the pork ragu last night, AMAZING! I will be raving about the book/ragu/blog when I get to work tomorrow. I hope you get some sales out of it. My little girl Lily loved your little girlsโ book reviews, we ordered some of the Babysitters graphic novels too. Iโve added you to my Bookmarks Toolbar. LOVE your blog.