Spudsy Sweet Potato Puffs

"Spudsy Sweet Potato Puffs help you snack smarter. Choose these savory or sweet Spudsy snacks for a vegan, non-GMO, kosher and gluten-free alternative to chips and less-healthy snacks - and feel great about rescuing imperfect taters from a wasteful fate!"As an avid snacker, I am always eager to try new snack foods.  I love chips alongside my lunch, but, the majority of my snacking is throughout the day, filled with every kind of flavored and coated popcorn imaginable,...

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Smitten Ice Cream

Update Reviews October 2021To bond while still working from home, a group from work decided to hold an ice cream social, and ship us all ice cream (and toppings!) from Smitten Ice Cream, to enjoy from our own homes, while we socialized over the video conference.  We had our pick of 2 pints and 2 toppings, from a restricted line up.Ice CreamAmerican Pie."Luscious summer berry ice cream laced with buttery pie dough crumbles. This beloved flavor transforms the classic...

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Ozumu, SF

Ozumo is a Japanese restaurant located right near my office that I've somehow walked by more times that I could possibly count (as, literally, my offices are located on either side of it, and I go back and forth between the buildings daily).  It has been open for ages (ok, since 2001, but, that is ages in the neighborhood!).  They have a sister establishment down in San Jose.  It has won awards.  It has a solid reputation.  And yet ......

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Tavernetta, Munich

When in Munich, go to an Italian restaurant?  Yup, for the meals that I picked on this trip, I was mostly not going to traditional Bavarian places, as all the meals I wasn't planning were bringing me to exactly those, and, well, this girl only wants so much beer, pretzels, meat, and potatoes (although, I'm more than happy to have all the kasiserschmarn!).Anyway, after a ok-but-not-great meal at Buffet Kul Bar, we went to Tavernetta, an Italian place I read great...

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RustiCucina, San Diego

I grew up eating a lot of Italian food.Ok, correction, I grew up eating a lot of ... extremely American Italian food.  By which I mean, we ate a lot of pizza (my father's favorite food), and a lot of basic spaghetti & jarred red sauce, sometimes frozen ravioli in jarred sauce.  Baked ziti or lasagna when mom was really cooking.  And no, I'm not talking anything remotely authentic.  When we went out to dinner, it was either to 1) Subway, 2) Del...

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