Zapp's Potato Chips

It wasn't until I moved to California that I encountered Zapp's potato chips, although they originate from New Orleans. Zapp's makes kettle chips, fried in peanut oil rather than standard vegetable oil, and don't wash off the starch, which they say gives them a more unique potato flavor.  All their chips do not use preservatives or MSG, and are gluten-free.  The company started out independent, but is now owned by the same parent company as Utz and Dirty...

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Flour & Branch

New bakeries are not particularly common in San Francisco, at least, not these days.  There are plenty of established classics (Tartine, Jane, b. Patisserie, etc), and of course there was a wave of places like Craftsman & Wolves that offered up innovative new items a few years ago, but, particularly in the setting of the pandemic, new bakeries aren't exactly cropping up.  So you can be sure that when one does, given my love of baked goods, I'm very, very...

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Little Szechuan

For some reason, I have rarely ever dined at Chinese restaurants.  Growing up, this makes sense - my dad won't touch Chinese food, so we'd never go as a family to the sole Chinese restaurant in town. But after that, I'm not really sure why.  For some reason, Chinese food is solidly a takeout or delivery only thing for me (other than dim sum).Which brings me to this review: yup, delivery and takeout from a Chinese Restaurant, Little Szechuan.Little Szechuan...

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Limited Edition Gelato Messina Tim Tams

The ultimate Sydney collab.  Tim Tams (the very, very Aussie cookie) and Gelato Messina (the fairly legendary gelato shop with many locations now).  Together.  To make Limited Edition Tim Tams.  To translate for San Francisco based folks, it would be like ... Oreo collaborating with Humphry Slocombe.  Or in New York, Chips Ahoy with Big Gay Ice Cream.  In Portland, Keebler and Salt & Straw.  I think you get the point?  Iconic...

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