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The
Conceptual
Cook:
A little bit of this,
a little bit of that

By Fred de Picciotto • May 6th, 2008 • Category: FOOD: Cooking with Doni

Best deal in San Francisco:  In the Tenderloin, on Larkin Street, between Turk and Eddy is a little hole-in-the-wall called Saigon Sandwich.  I’d been meaning to go there for some time now and finally made good on my intentions.

I parked…

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Food sustains father/daughter road trip
By Fred de Picciotto
Conceptual Cook

By Fred de Picciotto • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: FOOD: Cooking with Doni

Drive down Interstate 5 from Redding, past up-and-coming Red Bluff (you’d better believe it), through the olive trees around Corning, past the countless fruit trees and rice paddies, the ducks and geese near Willows and Maxwell,

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The road less traveled led to amazing site
By Doni Greenberg

By Fred de Picciotto • Apr 1st, 2008 • Category: THOUGHT: What's on Doni's mind

Welcome to Food for Thought’s Generation 4 version. In some ways it’s quite similar to the Food for Thought versions 3, 2 and 1.

It remains an uplifting, interactive “We” site; a reader-centered media hybrid. It’s part newspaper, part magazine, part…

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Fava Beans, By Fred de Picciotto: The Conceptual Cook

By Fred de Picciotto • Apr 1st, 2008 • Category: FOOD: Cooking with Doni


It is curious how the laws of chaos sometimes catapult a relatively obscure entity into the limelight. Such was the case when Jody Foster, who played a fledgling FBI agent, interviewed the infamous Hannibal Lecter in the movie “Silence of the Lambs.”

After asking him a question he replied, “A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”

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