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i love seven stars yogurt. the texture and flavor are amazing. a little more expensive than buying ronnybrook at the greenmarket, but worth it.

there's a great website at www.goodeatsfanpage.com that has lists of all the good eats episodes by title, subject, and date aired. also transcripts of all the shows and links to recipes. betcha can find what you're looking for on there!

go to taqueria cancun on mission street between 18th and 19th (i think) in san francisco for, in my opinion, the best burrito in the city. i grew up there and cancun is always one of the first stops i have to make when i go home for a visit. make sure to get some avocado in your burrito! also check out Q on clement st. for affordable foodie-friendly (emphasis on local and seasonal) eats. their brunch is killer.

if you like ethiopian food, my favorite place is axum, on haight street a few blocks off fillmore (lower haight). portland has tons of great ethiopian too!

no way youse guys, it's all about cinnamon-roasted-fig saturdays. holy milkfat, definitely one of the best shakes i've ever had.

sarahlucy, you should still be able to get fresh lavender from the greenmarkets, although probably not for too much longer. i've bought it from keith's farm, i think, they have a stall on wednesdays at union square.

bittman had a good column about cooking with lavender a few weeks back, if you need to use up the rest of the bunch. i wish i had an electric mixer so i could made these cookies!

"Hot Choice" Tombstone Deep Dish Pepperoni Pizza

Submitted by Robert Moor

Visiting my old alma mater last week, I was drawn like a gluttonous moth to a vending machine reading "Tombstone Pizza." Yes, pizza from a vending machine. I stood, perplexed, imagining the birth of warm pizza from this cold mechanical womb. An undergrad strolled by and chuckled, obviously familiar with this pitiable sight. "Have you tried it?" I asked. "It sucks. No one even bothers," she responded. With that, of course, my mind was set. I would do what no one else had the heart to do—I would venture into the future.

After some deliberation, I opted for the pepperoni pizza, choosing it over other, less traditional choices such as chicken fingers, barbecue chicken pizza, or a warm Oreo brownie. I fed it my three dollars (!) and eagerly watched the baking process on a small digital screen.

The result? One minute later, the machine spit out a small cardboard package, which it warned would be "Very Hot." Inside was a hot (not very hot) "pizza" about the size of a video iPod. Approximately 75 percent of this tawdry square was composed of dough, which was thick, salty, and tasted something like baked Silly Putty. The bright-red pepperonis were tiny, faintly reminiscent of Bacos ("MADE WITH PORK, CHICKEN, AND BEEF," the package proudly proclaimed), and actually more numerous than the shreds of cheese by a ratio of 2-to-1. Needless to say, I devoured it in a matter of seconds.

After one bite, I understood the undergrad's grave warning. Never eat pizza from a machine. It's like making love to a Terminator: almost satisfying, but slightly creepy, and there's always the possibility that it will collapse your chest cavity with one fatal blow. Thank you, Tombstone, but I'll take my pizza the way it was meant to be prepared: baked lovingly by burnt-out hippies and their disgruntled, overweight, mustachioed Italian managers. Or underpaid illegal immigrants. Whichever.

(i shamelessly copy-pasted this from http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/newfood/. internet faux pas?)

veganaise!

it seems ridiculous to me that people who are willing to eat cows, pigs, and chickens on a daily basis would react so strongly to the consumption of dog meat. in my opinion, an animal is an animal is an animal. don't get me wrong, i love dogs, but i'd try eating one if i was given the opportunity. it just seems silly to me to get all up in arms about someone eating a dog, then turn around and have a hamburger, you know?

i used to snack on it dry, too. ate too much top ramen my first year of college and haven't wanted to eat it since... why eat packaged ramen when you can go to rai rai ken and get it fresh, with delicious crispy fried garlic?

anyways, i used to make it with sriracha and a ridiculous amount of nutritional yeast in the broth, so it got all cloudy and i could fool myself into thinking that i was eating something that was sorta good for me.

i made this last night with purple potatoes and lots of fried shallots. beautiful and delicious!

oh, i love it. the packaging is great, too. if they made one for my ipod i would totally buy it.

also, on a related note in the food-nerd/nerd-nerd crossover, keyboard-shaped waffles!!

i like to mix in some garlic powder with the butter on the outsides of the sammich. then fry it on high heat so it almost burns. so tasty!