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Where Ingredients are Found




A S K • H O M E • A R C H I V E
Calabrian Chiles in bulk @ Rainbow Grocery in the Mission $12.99/lb Used in Italian cooking (Re: A16 Food and Wine Cookbook)
Huitlacoche @ Far West Fungi @ the Ferry Terminal Farmer Market Summertime ~$5/4 ears of corn.
Chihuacle Chiles @ Special order from Tierra Vegetables @ Ferry Terminal Farmer’s Market Saturdays $12/lb (very light, aka dried).  Call Ahead of time: (707) 837-8366   @ May be on 24th street, but these chiles are rare/from the Yucatan
Culantro or Ngo Gai @ the Tenderloin’s Hiep-Thanh Market $0.99/baggie 
Shishito Peppers @ Nijiya Market ~20 peppers/$3
Gobo/Burdock @ Nijiya $2-$3/lb
Fresh Santa Cruz Octopus @ Divisadero Farmer’s Market (Sunday 10am-2pm).  Sold by From The Sea To You - $7/lb My Sunday goes something like this: 10:00 Wake up 10:30 Wake up again.  Fill a bowl with water.  Dump in some dry ceci beans.  Wipe the splashback from my eye. 11:00 Pull a stubborn spoon out of the disposal.  Hiss back at the espresso machine. 12:00 Brush the crumbs out of my eyes and off my face. Brush my teeth. 1:00  Stroke the pages of A:16 Food and Wine as ponder where do fresh octopi come from?  I know they have mommies too, but where can I get one? 1:30 Surf the net for venders of fresh octopi.  Google top hits are unworthy of mention.  Even San Francisco Fish Company is playing that frozen game. 1:50 Lay back down and contemplate riding to the mission to get coffee with Danny G regarding his new venture Sour Flour.  Think about bikes… bike shops…Mojo cafe…my underground dinner at Mojo Cafe…Divisadero Street… Pop up like a daisy in May! 1:55 Furiously call Ariana from Andrew’s phone and convince her to drop her organic chemistry work and run across the street buy be a fresh octopus from the Divisadero farmer’s market!  YEE-HAW! 1:58 Haggle with Ariana to haggle with the vender on the price of my wild Santa Crus Octopus. 2:10 Arrive at Mojo cafe as Ariana passes off a 3 lb cleaned octopus.  Coil it in my back pack and ride off to the mission. 5:00 Tuck octopus lovingly into refrigerator.  Start to prepare dinner.  Ahh the burden of being a picky cook.
Banana Blossom @ The New May Wah $1.49/lb
Rau Ram @ the Tenderloin’s Hiep-Thanh Market $0.99/baggie