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Sausage Fest III - Damn good!

Sausage Fest III

Now that is a sausage! Tomorrow is Sausage Fest III. The annual fete of beer and brats! We will have photos galore by the end of the weekend! So for all of you not in the Bay Area, grab a great beer, a sausage of your choice and go to town! Cheers!

Art and looking for a drink

"Where the Wild Things Are" is a seminal work that since my first viewing as a little boy has always made me smile. The Jewish Contemporary Museum is showing an exhibit titled, "There's a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak" and being fans of Maurice Sendak we decided to go. Neither Shauna or I had been to the museum and had wanted to go for a while. The space was formally a power station for San Francisco and has been re-imagined into a world-class museum by Daniel Libeskind.  It is a large space that has three dedicated rooms for shows,  The Sendak exhibit took me back to my childhood and I did not realize just how many books he either wrote or did the art for, his influence on my life was immense. Not knowing it until yesterday, I owe much to Mr. Sendak, his drawings helped shape my ability to imagine. If you are in San Francisco or at least near it you should take the time to see the exhibit.

Carbs and fat be damned! EVEN IN L.A.

Los Angeles has a very misunderstood image. Now, as with all stereotypes there is some truth to the vapid, self-conscious, and self-obsessed culture in L.A. but times are a changing. This weekend I was in LaLa-land for a wedding and got to explore a new trend in the dining scene: FAT and BREAD!

When I arrived into L.A. we headed over to my sister-in-law's place and putzed around thinking of a place to eat when the in-law's boyfriend pulled out the most recent edition of Los Angeles Magazine  which had a cover story about the best new bars in L.A. He said there was this place that I only thought could be in the movies. A  restaurant that ONLY serves sausage, buns, toppings, dessert, and beer! The moment he uttered these words I had to go.

This place of fat, bread and yeast is located in Downtown. A place that for years had been forgotten but has in the past few years become a bastion of the hip, hungry and  thirsty. Our sausage adventure took us to Wurstkuche and I must say I was impressed. When we arrived there was a line of about 25 to 30 people, by the time we got to the counter there must have been close to 100 people in line. The concept is brilliant. There are a plethora of sausages to choose from (I got Rattlesnake and Duck), you then choose two toppings, a great beer list all on tap and if you are up to it and we were, Belgium style fries with a choice of two dipping sauces! Heaven on Earth for us meat eaters, beer drinkers and lovers of not using utensils. The sausages are sourced from all around the country but the majority are from the west coast, choosing very high quality sausages from the classic Brat to the exotic alligator.

Putting it in the right place

Shireen Qudosi is back as a guest writer. I happen to live in San Francisco and have a shared basement which is at a constant and cool temperature. But for those of you that live in hotter climates take heed, if you buy any wine that you are "saving" don't just put it in a cupboard or over the fridge.