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bakeries

Bread in a basket

August 3, 2010
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German Bakery, St. Petersburg Saturday Morning Market Most images link to larger images. click on larger image for closeup

Fort Worth Bavarian Bakery

May 7, 2010
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On a recent business trip to Fort Worth, Texas, my friends there took me to the Bavarian Bakery and Cafe. Such an establishment may not seem to jive with the stereotypical Texan cuisine, but it is a very popular place with the locals and it is decidedly authentic as both the owner/operators–husband and wife, Stephan [...]

Cookie

January 12, 2010
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Alessi’s bakery Tampa, FL Taken on July 29, 2008 Most images link to larger images. click on larger image for closeup

German bread, pastries, and very fresh fish

March 11, 2009

(Note: all the pictures in this post link to larger images in Flickr;just click on the images you see here.)   There are three booths at the St. Petersburg Saturday Morning Market that I didn’t cover in my earlier post about the market. These vendors have become important mainstays of my weekly shopping (the market [...]

Spreading around the love

February 11, 2009

click here for larger image PASTRIES AT MAZZARO’S If you have a significant other, you probably already have thought through what you’ll get as a Valentine’s Day gift. Sometimes, though, it’s fun to spread the love around on Valentine’s Day to folks you care about beyond that special someone. Remember getting all those little paper [...]

ABC Chinese Seafood Restaurant

January 10, 2009

SIGN AT ABC SEAFOOD After having been totally spoiled from my years in Tampa with access to China Yuan, one of the first questions I asked upon moving to St. Pete was, Where’s your most authentic Chinese restaurant. At that time, an extremely authentic St. Pete Chinese restaurant (Lucky Star) was still out of business [...]

Cafe Mozart German Bakery

November 15, 2008

Cafe Mozart Bakery (6754 4th St N Saint Petersburg, FL 33702; 727-521-1333) has a long history and an excellent reputation in St. Petersburg. It’s a quality bakery. It’s difficult to discipline oneself to eat only small portions of their black bread—pictured above—which is marvelous. I can’t recommend this place and their baked goods highly enough. [...]

Bosnian Food Store and Bakery

November 8, 2008

How many times have you passed an interesting looking shop and kept telling yourself, “I really want to check that place out,” but then never do? Happens to me all the time. I finally stopped to explore such a little place that I’ve passed countless times but never entered, the Balkan Food Store and Bakery [...]

China Yuan

August 9, 2008

Serve the People If you like Chinese food and you don’t buy any other book this year, please buy Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China by Jen Lin-Lui. I unreservedly recommend it. (You can purchase it directly through the link above.) It’s a book I wish I’d written. It is the autobiographical story [...]

Let Us Eat Cake

July 30, 2008
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Well, there’s no doubt about it, times are tough for almost everyone. When it’s like that, it’s the little things that can make a big difference. Some of the happiest music every created was from the era of the Great Depression: Louis Armstrong, Nat “King” Cole, Fats Domino, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Coleman [...]

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