This time, it's white figs.

Ice Cream!

Garlic! Everywhere is Garlic!

EVERYWHERE! @ the Stinking Rose.
















I'M CRUSHING YOUR HEAD!
















Shawna enjoying a glass of Chianti
















Me & Pete from Singapore. Somehow were are both wearing pink.
















Bagna Calda. My garlic dip is better!
















Iron Skillet Mussels
































Gnocchetti w/ garlic gorgonzola, asparagus, & toasted pine nuts.
















Sott'olio Haddock w/ acini di pepe pasta in roasted tomato lemon snap pea butter sauce.
















Silence of the Lamb Shank w/ Chianti glaze and fava beans. This dish was a winner.
















Gilroy Garlic ice cream. We had to try it. It was garlicky. No idea how one person would eat all of that. Good to taste, not as good to eat.

Post-purple-post Post

Steve's Bahn Mi place to be.




























































Hat crew.
















@ Santana row

Purple Party Purple Spread

Blueberry Scones from John Campbells
















Red Cabbage dip w/ blue corn tortillas
















Taro bread toast w/ garlic, rosemary, chili dip and garlic, anchovy, thyme dip.





















Roasted purple potatoes and taro. The crunchy ones are the best.
















Beet salad a la Bouchon...
Includes red onions, fresh orange juice, red wine vinegar, chives, taragon, salt & pepper.
















Beet Salad a la Nat Loh. Mixed with arugula, toasted pecans, grated goat cheese, tossed with the beets and a vinaigrette.
















The Mediterranean construction. Pita, marinated eggplant, radicchio, pink tzatziki, and I dunno what they call the cucumber and tomato mix.





















ta-da. add some siracha for some kick.

Purple Pre-pre-party Pre-party-party

Purple Party groceries. Purple items include red cabbage, red onion, beets, concord grapes, blackberries, radicchio, taro, peruvian purple potatoes, eggplant...
















Concord grapes stewing for their trip to the ice cream machine.

500 Days of Miyazaki

if only. that would be some really educational stuff.












Saw this movie with Steve and Dan. I hadn't seen a trailer or anything for it. I forget the last movie I saw going in blind...
















Afterwards, in Berkeley. Ran into a craaaaazy number of people I know and not just from this event. But mostly from this event. This is the Zellerbach Hall @ UCB/Cal. It looks like the home of the Morlocks.





















I saw Hayao Miyazaki talk. If you don't know him, he IS the Walt Disney of Japan. Except he is Japanese. And alive. And way cooler. And has this stereotypical Japanese low-register grunt "Mmmmm" he does deeply contemplating his answer before speaking. And way cooler. Oh I said that. But to prove the point, he storyboards all of his movies in their entirety. But he did say that is what directors in Japan do. In the US they just... well I'm not sure but they surely don't storyboard. Neverless the entire movie. His advice to aspiring animators (which I think applies to all creative fields) was to endlessly practice and seek critical feedback from those who will not seek to inflate your ego or go easy on you.
















After-after. Sausages and Frites w/ roasted tomatoes at La Note in Berkeley w/ Dan and some of his Pixar friends. I believe this was on Shattuck, somewhere well south of University.
















Beckett's Irish Grill and Pub for some drinks and in house Pirate sing-a-longs. Seriously...

Chik'n!