I bought Saveur today because I am mad at Gourmet (Dear Gourmet: Please stop jizzing over all things Italian and also please stop putting bacon in every recipe-pancetta is the same thing as bacon practically so you're not fooling me there). They have 100 things they love and number one (they said it's non-ranked but whatevs) is the insane huge farmer's market in Stockton. I think I am going thrifting in Stockton this saturday has anyone been to the farmer's market? Also, which food mag does everybody like if you like that kind of thing at all.
Coincidentally, I am going to be in Stockton on Saturday too (though for the opposite of shopping--helping clean out my grandparents' house). Where do you eat there? For so long the food was execrable, but there seems like there must be lots of good cheap eats. Unfortunately, everyone I know there is over 80 and has no idea. (Though, my grandfather always loved the farmers' market.)
ReplyDeleteLast time I was in town I spotted a huge paleta/Mexican ice cream place and wrote it down, but have not had a chance to try it.
As to food magazines--I go through phases, but Gourmet frequently drives me nuts. Saveur has kind of slipped from its heyday, but it's always interesting. Food and Wine manages the occasional cool piece and is good for keeping up with trends (especially in food photography), but it's too "My Cocktail Party With the Fabulous" for me.
i like saveur. i also like sunset occasionally for their recipes but mostly because i'm a travel nut and rabid west coast enthusiast. tower carried this really great food zine called bread and salt that is so interesting but now that tower's gone i can't find it anyway. i think i'll have to look on line.
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I really like Cook's Illustrated; it's ad-free and has prettily drawn illustrations; they're in-depth and I like their kind-of-scientific approach, which often involves trying a bunch of brands of a key recipe ingredient and reporting their opinions of it. Also, their recipes aren't impossibly fancy.
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ReplyDeleteI'll try again. Eating in Stockton. Manny's California Fresh is good, I like the fried chicken sandwich. There is an Italian place that everyone likes, I'm not sure if it's called Angelinas. I'm hoping EC or HC could confirm. HC told me there's some area, maybe near the old downtown that has great Vietnamese. The denio's type market that you pass on the way into town on friday and saturday (not sure if this is the same as the farmer's market that saveur is talking about) has tons of mexican food booths that i'm sure are really good.
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> Angelinas.
Yep, it's Angelina's on Fremont St. (right off Wilson Way). A childhood favorite of mine...
Ooooh...I miss Manny's fried chicken and wedge potatoes.
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KW- inappropriate comment, but...
ReplyDeleteI occasionally handle estates, it is my favorite thing in the world to do! Weird, I know. On one job in Stockton I ended up finding a tiny paper bag in the bottom of a box of junk mail from the 1990's, full of the family's wedding rings going back 100+ years and tintypes they never knew existed! The family was sure happy! Really look before you chuck it in the garbage!
About eating in Stockton- Manny's is fantastic, Angelina's is great, There are lots of Vietnamese places, tons of great Mexican food and the famous Genova Bakery too. I have a soft spot for the Graduate, it's not special pizza, but what a relic of the 70's!
-Ella
Try Chow.com ... I do like Bon Appetit, but the recipes always have one impossible-to-find ingredient. Everyday Food, actually, has great stuff pared down to 1-2 servings.
ReplyDeleteAngelina's is OK, but if you want good Italian in Stocktone (native here), you gotta see if the Torino Hotel downtown is still serving family-style lunches. And, yeah, Manny's is pretty good.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the cioppino feeds at the Italian Athletic Club and the Waterloo Gun & Bocci Club east of town are pretty good.
Ella, on the handling estates thing--any way I could contact you? At some point (once we've sorted through the personal stuff), we will need help and we have no idea where to start.
ReplyDeleteI know north Stockton better than other areas, though my grandparents used to take me to the old On Lock Sam's a lot. There are some good pho places (I like Pho Lucky) in north Stockton (around Hammer Ln, I think), including what seems to be a branch of Pho Bac Hoa Viet. But their stuff is different enough from the Sac branches that I wondered if ownership had changed.
Saveur is my favorite, esp. the top 100 issue. I wish I could go to the Stockton Market!
ReplyDeleteTorino's is not the same...Trebino's is gone. Want more Stockton info check out VisitStockton.org
ReplyDeleted.b. gave me an old gastronomica(the journal of food) from news b. once. its cool its like reading the new yorker but all the essays are about food. and its not all recipe recipe recipe, restaurant review, wine list; they write about food experiences and history so its alittle more fun to read.
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that bacon shit is cool in gourmet. i got a bacon dill sweet pea recipe thats dope from them.
KW- I'd love to talk or help, or whatever you need. Can you get my email from Beckler? Or can I ask her for yours?
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