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July 16, 2010
Packaging Whore: The Salumi Cone @ Boccalone (SF)
Mortadella, prociutto cotto, and prociutto crudo slices… in a CONE.
This is how we’ll be eating meat in the future. How about steak (medium rare please!) in a cone? Hot dog in a cone? Slab bacon in a cone?
Hmmm… I think I’m onto something. This reminds me of…
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March 29, 2010
Packaging Whore: The Alembic Matchbook
Finally made it out to The Alembic, a bar on Haight Street in SF– it’s a spot that has been buzzed about extensively for their cocktails and gastroeats. I believe it is related to Magnolia, the brewpub right down
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January 14, 2010
Packaging Whore: Fish in a (Cake) Box
On New Year’s Eve in Japan, my mama came home with this box. This looks exactly like an Asian cake box, right? I thought, from the shape, this was probably a log cake or something.
Very celebratory color and pattern on the box. Must be something
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January 6, 2010
Packaging Whore: Vanilla Extract Throwback
Oh, you’re gonna love this. I was shuffling through the spicerack in my mama’s kitchen the other day, preparing to make my buttered bread pudding, when I finally found what I was looking for: vanilla extract.
Hmmm, I thought:
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December 15, 2009
Packaging Whore: Fool-Proof Pasta (Thx, JPN!)
Dear De Cecco, Barilla, and all other major pasta producers of the world: you should be ashamed of yourself, letting Japan come up with the smartest packaging for pasta EVER.
This one is “Mama” brand that my own mama Hideko picked up at
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December 9, 2009
Packaging Whore: Roman Honey
Look what Alice brought back for me all the way from glorious Roma– a huge glass jar of organic, orange-flavored honey!!! It’s so heckaheavy, she’s out of her mind for even thinking of lugging this back to SF in her luggage. Her
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December 1, 2009
Packaging Whore: Gone Bananas!
Trader Joe’s. Cupertino, CA. Do you see all the little silhouettes of monkeys everywhere? The whole thing is so cheesy, I couldn’t resist buying a box (only $1.99 for four bananas!).
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November 17, 2009
Packaging Whore: Pannikin Coffee & Tea (SD)
I saw the coffee cup and stopped dead in my tracks.
Best. Logo. Ever.
The colors! The font! The way the logo takes up the entire length of the cup! It’s all very 1970’s punk rock meets Communist
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October 21, 2009
Packaging Whore: Guadagni Jug O’ Wine
A few weeks back, my bff Kristi, Nate and I stopped by Preston Creek Winery on our way back from the Ladhabhoy nuptials in Healdsburg, Sonoma County (I went to a total of seven weddings this
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September 6, 2009
Packaging Whore: Mon Chouchou Baumkuchen (Osaka)
Newest omiyage (gift) in the Akabori household from Japan: green tea Baumkuchen from a patisserie in Dojima, Osaka called Mon Chouchou. From the website, it looks like it is a relatively new shop (2003),
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