Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: craving an elderberry lemon cake
Edibly Yours:
•The cake for the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle is to be baked by Claire Ptak, who for 10 years has presided over the Violet bakery in East London. As to the local angle, as noted in the Berkeley Patch, Ptak is from Inverness, and worked for three years as pastry chef at Chez Panisse. The couple has ordered up a lemon elderflower cake.
•Excerpt from a NextDoor Castro listing, as culled by Mark Abramson: “Dear Wine Thief: At least you have good taste. When I set my grocery bag down on the sidewalk to bring my organic vegetables and pesto inside, I did so with my heart full of trust. Apparently a full-bodied flavor profile and attractive price point matter more to you than good will. ... You, regional wine absconder, took the liquid honey for yourself. ... Sincerely, Your Dejected Gay Neighbor.”
•When news broke on March 17 of the fire in North Beach, loyal customer Jerry Brown called Tommaso’s, beloved North Beach restaurant, to make sure that everything was OK there. Co-owner Carmen Crotti assured the governor that all was well.
•And Chelsea Handler, who was in town raising money for Syrian refugees through the Karam Foundation, took a party of seven to Waterbar on March 16.
•At Costco this week, Wendy Galland says she asked several employees if there was a Passover section. No one knew what she was talking about. So she asked someone where the matzoh was. “Oh, you mean the mozzarella?” was the reply.
•Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, has written to complain about “the latest commercial assault on Christianity”: A Canadian ice cream company called Sweet Jesus, with a logo that includes a “satanic S” standing in for the first letter S in Jesus. This, says the League, calls for a boycott because it sends a “demonic message.”
•At St. Paul’s church in Noe Valley last week, Rev. Mario Farana told parishioners — including Maureen Barry — that Sister Jean, the elderly nun, mascot and basketball fanatic chaplain for the Loyola-Chicago team, was a 1937 graduate of St. Paul’s High School. She went to Holy Redeemer High School. A church staffer confirmed that she had played on that high school’s basketball team. Before she became a Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary nun, “she was a Panda,” she said.
•“Since we now know that Facebook reportedly saves extensive data of personal calls and texts made by users,” says James Patterson, “it seems Mark Zuckerberg’s business model is the National Security Agency.”
•Special interests: Kenneth Atterman passes along word that “Jared and Ivanka’s faith is having a big influence on President Trump. In advance of Passover, he’s cleaning out his cabinet.” And Will Durst is “not saying the military is losing respect for Donald Trump, but now, whenever he enters a room, the U.S. Marine Band plays ‘Hail to the Chief’ on a calliope.”
Emerging from the opera house after a Saturday performance of the San Francisco Ballet, Judith Brownfield overheard a woman telling her friend, “Well, the dog in my row was better than the woman sitting next to me!” It’s unclear whether this was in reference to heavy breathing, fidgeting in one’s seat or any other infraction of audience etiquette (perhaps the woman in the next seat barked).
What is clear is that in this, the Chinese Year of the Dog, everything’s coming up canine. Artist Michael Gillette’s Year of the Dog drawing exhibition, at Luna Rienna Gallery in San Francisco, is a series of 50 portraits of dogs adorned with human headgear. This was inspired, as all the best things are, with a “box of vintage dog cards I found in the Goodwill,” which contained drawings of bulldogs, Gillette says.
Those cards, in turn, inspired Gillette to photograph friends’ dogs, and then make drawings from those photos. “One set of Italian Greyhounds morphed into deities,” he says, “from Odin to Jesus via Krishna and Buddha and beyond.”
I think this pretty much refutes the observation, recently repeated herein, that weirdness has left San Francisco.
Taking a few days off, but will see you in about a week. Meanwhile, ta-ta.
Leah Garchik is open for business in San Francisco, (415) 777-8426. Email: lgarchik@sfchronicle.com; Twitter: @leahgarchik
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