Drink Eat Love

Snack Break: Balsamic Strawberry Ice Cream

A warm spell in San Francisco is to be treasured. While they can be otherwise torturous during the work week, they make for the best snack breaks, especially when you live close to the Bi Rite Creamery. The Creamery opened last year in a gauntlet-throwing move to contest Mitchell's Ice Cream, for a while now the only (real) game in town.

Ice cream in San Francisco is a tricky proposition. Your best sales months are socked in fog and whipped by cold winds. There is no such thing as lingering over a cone or a shake into a languid evening here, except for two or three weeks out of the year. Four, maybe, thanks to global warming. In order to thrive in the ice cream business, you have got to be so good that people are willing to stand in line on the gustiest and foggiest of summer afternoons. But today - a decidedly non-gusty or foggy spring marvel that had Dolores Park dotted with folk - was a perfect ice cream day.

Cold Sherry on a Warm Night

Today was a scorcher - the kind of day that makes normally sun-deprived, vitamin D-seeking San Franciscans run for shade. In other words, it was in the 80s. Even as I type this into the evening, it is balmy enough to have the windows open. A perfect time for a glass of manzanilla sherry out of the fridge and ruminations on this space.

We've been putting this thing together for about a month now, and will begin posting regularly when it goes live shortly. I'm still honing a "manifesto," but meanwhile, I wanted to put down some words to convey what Drink Eat Love is about.