We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. We feel especially in touch with our inner Cookie Monster after all that reading, and you'll see why. These are our favorite tidbits from today's offerings:
SF Chronicle Amanda Gold recommends using seasonal spices in baked desserts, including cookies. We really want to try the dreamy looking and sounding lemon layer cake with cranberry lemon curd, ooh la la!. Gold is also all about the (vegetable) oil rather than the fried foods cooked in said oil. Kids of all ages, look to that oil for true Hanukkah meaning. Olivia Wu welcomes back Chilean Sea Bass, sort of. Watch it! The Monterey Bay Aquarium's gives the controversial fish a big fat "avoid", since it may not be truly sustainable, just yet. That designation is under review by the Aquarium, with new results by February.
Contra Costa ( CoCo ) Times Where the groceries are: Trader Joe's (not a big shocker here) and our tried-and-true ethnic East Bay standby, Los Montanas (in some ways, a more adventurous choice) gets the nod in a super market report. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab heads to the stoves, to bake some neato cookies. We like knowing that "there are no gigantic, mutant treats here, no irradiated fudge or isotope toffee. And they don't use the cyclotron to cream butter." Whew! We were worried!
Oakland Tribune Chow Mein Candy and a Raspberry Winter Wonderland cookie (pictured above) win the annual cookie contest. Those poor, stuffed judges have it rough: "It's a collective decision... like a team sport," reported one on the "inherently unsatifsying" nature of judging. From last week but of note, a restaurant review with "a little Latin spice" of Villagio in Lafayette.
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