Baking and Pastry
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Butchery
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Chinatown Tour - Nov. 28, 2007
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San Francisco
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Tag: Garde Manger
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Adrianne puts a chiffonade of argula on top of our canapes.
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Pretty food

Toasted bagette, bit of cream cheese with stuff, bit of cured salmon, apple fan and chives.
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Work in progress.
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Toasted bagette, roasted red pepper aioli, seared chicken diced fine, sun dried tomatos, chiffonade of arugala. (I helped put a few of these together, the concept was someone else's.)
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Chef Richard getting our order ready. I told him I'd put him on my blog and make him famous, he asked me to make him look busy.
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This one I did work on. Toasted bagette (by me), cream cheese mixed with chopped dill (me again), cured salmon sliced real thin (Drew), wrapped around two chive stems (Drew again), a quarter cherry tomato (both of us) and a sprinkle of diced green onion (both of us).
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Drew assembles a tray of tasty snacks. Each group of 6ish has to turn out 100 canapes a day in addition to either a fruit platter, cheese board or sushi tray.
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Close up of our magnificant fruit platter. Check out the melon lotus.
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The full thing. That will be $300, please. (Seriously, once you know what goes into these things, you'll never be able to look at a banquete menu the same way.)
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This is what you get when the sushi group decides they're intimidated by the bamboo mats. It was their first day, so we're hoping they're over themselves.
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How to class up spinach dip: Pipe it with the star tip, top with crispy prosciutto ham and diced red pepper. This tasted really good.
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You have to log 28 hours of training on the squeeze bottle before you can go solo.
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Goddess in The City

Demeter on a federal office building at UN Plaza. 3June2007

Imperial Tea Court

We started here. This is considered to be the first Japanese style tea house in the US. It's been open about 15 years.

Tea Expert

Micheal the Tea Guy brewing us all a nice cuppa Jasmine Pearls. Nice stuff.

Tea for 15

Pouring out the tea. The tray was quite cool - it was double layered with holes in the top so any spillage would be contained.

Sly guy

This is Emperor Somebody or Another who is supposed to have been the first person to put tea leaves into boiling water in the first century. He's now their god of agriculture. I just liked the expresion on his face.

Tea stuff

Some of the teas and their acutrements. The melon-shaped things on the right are pressed cakes of tea leaves. It's a good way to transport large amounts of the stuff.

Old leaves

Tea - like wines - can improve with age. And the cost goes up accordingly.

View from Broadway

As you can see, it was a rare warm and sunny day in San Francisco.