NPR Interviewed Me
I had my first NPR interview with Rick Kleffel of KUSP. We talked for an hour.
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It’s just been 2 weeks since we saved the severely damaged Song of Pulcinella restoration and rolled it across Columbus Avenue to a safe haven. It’s been a week since I brought the San Francesco statue to Emerald Tablet gallery to oversee the restoration. …
Cioppino has been on my mind lately. Some of my fans asked me to share my recipe so I just had to make it today. Cioppino is a San Francisco original created by the Italians on Fisherman’s Wharf in the 1800s. The local story is …
Rhode Island friends are in town and we we’re making 2 classic Italian-American pasta dishes. Carol brought a cavati pasta machine all the way from Little Rhody. I’ve never seen this contraption and I was anxious to try it out. You say cavati, I say …
Lidia Bastianich inspires me. She’s been a mentor for a long time. I have 6 of her cookbooks and I read them often. Lidia’s Italy has been a PBS blockbuster cooking show for years. I’ve watched them all but my absolute favorite is the one …
Quite a week for the Village. Two great Chronicle restaurant reviews and USA Today named a North Beach pizzeria the best in the country. North Beach is on fire! Gigi’s Sotto Mare on Green is one of the last remaining traditional Italian-American restaurants. Gigi’s first …
Can Vranas’ Song of Pulcinella smashed mural be saved? The artist and a local handyman think it can be done and our restoration plan will start on Saturday.
Follow our efforts to restore the damaged “Song of Pulcinella” mural by Vranas and put in on display in North Beach for all to enjoy.
I can’t wait to be sitting with you on a Saturday afternoon under the olive trees sipping a Caffe Trieste espresso and listening to live Italian music.
The sole filets take on a golden crust and are flakey and moist. The edges are crisp and nutty. The caper butter sauce gently enhances each bite. The mellow broccoli spears round out the plate. A really quick and healthy lunch or dinner.
What a day–the fog finally burned off as we headed down the hill to North Beach’s Caffe Puccini to watch the 143rd Italian Heritage Parade–the oldest in the country. Hundreds were lining the parade route already. The tables set up in the street all over …
North Beach’s biggest event of the year is this Sunday–the 143rd Annual Italian Heritage Parade–the oldest in America. You gotta be here–it’s a great day in the Village. Floats, politicians, bands, Queen Isabella and her Court, Cristoforo Columbo himself–the Parade has it all and it …
Restoration Begins on the Mural
The restoration of North Beach muralist Vranas’ Song of Pulcinella is like working a jigsaw puzzle. Watch as a group of neighbors and artists struggle to put the severely damaged mural back together again.