san francisco : Cafe Fernando – Food Blog

It's Sunday in İstanbul. 01:55 AM to be exact. I just churned an amazing strawberry ice cream. After eight trials, I think I've finally nailed it. I'll go to bed in a few minutes and pray for clear skies. And in about seven hours, right after my first coffee, I'll start the day with a strawberry ice cream photo shoot for the book. After that, I'll take ...

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One rushed afternoon in San Francisco, I took a bite of this croissant at Tartine Bakery, leaned back in my chair and thought: "How wonderful the world would be if there was a Tartine in every city." Of course, we would then need to clone Chad Robertson. Multiple times. An even more wonderful world. A somewhat selfish but definitely more reasonable version would be: "How wonderful my world ...

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To be perfectly honest, I don't remember much from my visit to Ici. Right after the dinner at Chez Panisse, two of our friends came to pick us up and five minutes later, we were at Ici. I was still ChezPanisse-struck. But I never forget that I have a food blog, so I reached for my camera without thinking and somewhere along the line, I heard my friend repeating ...

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Two years before opening Chez Panisse, Alice Waters, together with her friend from the Montessori Centre, started a journey from London and ended up in a remote village in Turkey. In the middle of nowhere, they ran out of gas and asked for help from a big-eyed boy. The boy mimed there wasn't any gas left to pump and when they asked for food, this time he ...

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"San Franciscans will save the world." "My heart is in my throat right now!" "Did you hear that?!? He told me to take as many photos as I'd like!" "Dear reader, after not that much thought and consideration, I've decided to stay in San Francisco..." "This chicken dish totally deserves a four-page long recipe." "Can you believe it? I'm standing where once David Lebovitz baked!" "Can you ...

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