Bread and Chocolate: My Food Life In and Around San Francisco

Bread and Chocolate: My Food Life In and Around San Francisco

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For many years, Fran Gage ran the famed Patisserie Francaise on upper Market Street in San Francisco. Now, in this special book of stories and recipes, Gage writes most engagingly about a life that has centered around food. Whether it is creating fine French pastries, hunting down the source of California's best sun-dried tomatoes, or proselytizing on behalf of the long-ne...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published January 9th 2002 by Sasquatch Books
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(clearly i was too tired last night to work goodreads because *this* was the book i meant to review NOT beat this-- oh sigh)

lovely. i love food memoirs. and local food memoirs are even more fantastic. there's some to-die-for recipes in this book too. yum.
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