Abe and chef and co-owner David Murphy are also the founders of Ugly Pickle Co., which uses ingredients that farms have in excess as well as imperfect produce that can’t be sold at stores. The partners started talking about opening a pizza restaurant years ago, since they’re limited in what produce they can take for pickling, and pizza is more versatile. … [Read more...] about San Francisco’s getting an ambitious new pizzeria that creates pies made with food waste
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San Francisco’s 101-year-old Tosca Cafe finally reopens after yearlong closure
For $75, diners get a spread of antipasti — meatballs in a spicy tomato sauce, artichoke-fennel-olive salad, fresh tomatoes with mozzarella — followed by a creamy pasta topped with truffles. Then, groups can choose two entrees, such as Tuscan fried chicken or squash risotto. … [Read more...] about San Francisco’s 101-year-old Tosca Cafe finally reopens after yearlong closure
Italy’s Prime Minister Resigns, Leaving Country in Crisis
Alessandra Ghisleri of Euromedia Research has also looked into the impact of Giuseppe Conte forming his own party and running in a fresh election and found that the ruling Democrats could head from 19 percent to just ten percent and be replaced by the Brothers of Italy as the second-largest party in the country. … [Read more...] about Italy’s Prime Minister Resigns, Leaving Country in Crisis
The Bad, Good Lawyer
“Would we have preferred some former Ernst & Young person to be the CFO versus Amy?” a former partner asks rhetorically. “It was just one of those idiosyncrasies that was strange about the firm.” The firm’s quirks were easy to tolerate, though, because everyone who worked there was getting so incredibly rich — and Boies, as the firm’s founder, was getting richest of all. “He didn’t really build a law firm,” says a longtime friend. “He built a money machine tied to David Boies.” Over the years, he came to live like the clients he represented, acquiring a world-class racing yacht and a couple of California vineyards. He sometimes shot craps with Nora Ephron on visits to Las Vegas. She and Boies were in the room, along with his friend Barbara Walters, on the infamous evening in 2006 when casino billionaire Steve Wynn, a Boies client, accidentally poked a hole in his Picasso. … [Read more...] about The Bad, Good Lawyer
Kellyanne Conway Is the Real First Lady of Trump’s America
When I suggested that Conway conflates feminism with misandry, the hatred of men, she said she didn’t know the term. She’s careful to define her own brand of “conservative feminism” as “softer” and “less anti-male” and “less pro-abortion” than the feminism practiced by the women wearing pussy hats to protest the president. “I don’t object to other people marching at all — you know, my friends were there,” she explained. “But I’d rather do than march; I’d rather act than talk.” Still, Conway, a pro-life advocate who spoke at the March for Life in Washington the week after the inauguration, says she would never judge a woman for getting an abortion and does not dispute, in an interview, my suggestion that she wouldn’t want to see Roe v. Wade overturned. She is, she explained, “sympathetic” to any woman who makes the decision to terminate a pregnancy. “Do I … [Read more...] about Kellyanne Conway Is the Real First Lady of Trump’s America