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PENINSULA FOODIST
A fond farewell from the Peninsula Foodist| By Elena Kadvany | I have some bittersweet news: This marks my farewell as the Peninsula Foodist. After putting out 47 Peninsula Foodist newsletters and eight...
Original post made by paloaltoonline.com on Apr. 9, 2021Last comment by Online Name, 33 minutes ago | 8 comments | 3118 Views
COUPLE'S NET
PornI realized I have not written about porn, and that it would be a good idea to do so. This could be a huge topic with lots of offshoots, but mostly I want to share...
Original post made by Chandrama Anderson on Apr. 9, 2021Last comment by Jennifer, 5 hours ago | 2 comments | 633 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Palo Alto Utilities breeds mistrust with lack of transparency around outagesA week ago the electricity went out across a large section of Palo Alto. About...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Apr. 4, 2021Last comment by Online Name, on Apr 9, 2021 at 12:46 pm | 28 comments | 3039 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
Low and slow: New Mountain View pop-up to showcase small-batch, regional barbecueIn upstate New York, where Brandon Irwin grew up, the spiedie sandwich reigned supreme. The...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Mar. 30, 2021Last comment by ChrisC, on Apr 8, 2021 at 7:04 pm | 3 comments | 5417 Views
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
Palo Alto has an escalating transparency problem -- the police have shut their doorsOn Monday, April 5, the police chief of Minneapolis, Medaria Arradondo, was testifying at the George Floyd trial about his professional view that defendant Derek...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Apr. 6, 2021Last comment by Barron Park Denizen, on Apr 8, 2021 at 3:37 pm | 6 comments | 1377 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
An obsession with English muffins spawns a new business: Skillet Bakery in Redwood City
Skillet Bakery, a new cottage food business in Redwood City, specializes in sourdough English muffins. Photo courtesy Frank Shanahan.
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Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Apr. 2, 2021Last comment by Joy Chase, on Apr 6, 2021 at 11:35 am | 2 comments | 6909 Views
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
The Power Outage: From a Lemon to LemonadeAt 5 p.m. on Saturday, my power went out, along with 7,000 other Palo Alto residents. I think for all of us on the Peninsula, power outages occasionally occur, so...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Mar. 29, 2021Last comment by Bystander, on Apr 4, 2021 at 10:18 pm | 15 comments | 3492 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
About the Express Lanes Coming to 101The Chair of the California Energy Commission, David Hochschild, recently observed that “electricity rates are climate policy”. I agree. We need to design...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Mar. 28, 2021Last comment by Sherry Listgarten, on Apr 4, 2021 at 2:17 pm | 27 comments | 6451 Views
TODDLING THROUGH THE SILICON VALLEY
Easter EggsperimentsAs we count down the days until Easter, our kids miss their grandma. Pre-covid she frequently visited us over Spring Break and shared her favorite science experiments...
Original post made by Cheryl Bac on Mar. 31, 2021Last comment by Cheryl Bac, on Apr 3, 2021 at 11:43 am | 4 comments | 1365 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
Palo Alto wine bar Vino Locale changes hands to customer-turned-ownerThe owners of Vino Locale have sold the downtown Palo Alto wine bar to a customer with a passion for food and wine. Co-owners JC Andrade and Debra Szecsei will...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Mar. 26, 2021Last comment by Julie O, on Apr 2, 2021 at 12:34 pm | 1 comment | 5531 Views
COUPLE'S NET
Love (not Zero)Once while soaking up the beauty of Taos, New Mexico, and the surrounding mountains, valleys, rivers, Rio Grande gorge, aspens, wild flowers, desert terrain, thunder...
Original post made by Chandrama Anderson on Apr. 2, 2021There are no comments yet. 1739 Views
TODDLING THROUGH THE SILICON VALLEY
Back to Magical Bridge PlaygroundEarlier this month our family had a wonderful time playing at Magical Bridge Playground. This was our first time visiting the playground since Covid and we cannot...
Original post made by Cheryl Bac on Mar. 24, 2021Last comment by Cheryl Bac, on Apr 1, 2021 at 9:46 am | 6 comments | 2667 Views
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
The coronavirus vaccine: So we had the capability of sending a man to the moon . . .The incompetency in this country to produce and provide enough COVID-19 vaccines to Americans is most disturbing. As the age-old adage goes, if America can send...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Mar. 20, 2021Last comment by Bystander, on Mar 29, 2021 at 3:17 pm | 18 comments | 4515 Views
PENINSULA FOODIST
San Francisco's Humphry Slocombe to bring its inventive ice cream to Redwood CitySan Francisco ice cream favorite Humphry Slocombe is coming to downtown Redwood City this fall. Humphry Slocombe will open its first Peninsula store at 2075 Broadway,...
Original post made by Elena Kadvany on Mar. 29, 2021There are no comments yet. 3669 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
Demystifying heat pump water heatersThere is a surprising amount of water heater inertia in our area -- we are clinging to old-style heaters. I’ve been scratching my head about it. Mid-peninsula...
Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Jan. 17, 2021Last comment by MrScott, on Mar 28, 2021 at 3:37 pm | 27 comments | 12732 Views
COUPLE'S NET
Trust"Trust is habitual reciprocity that becomes coated by emotion." - David Brooks* What a fantastic definition of trust. I am often asked, "What is...
Original post made by Chandrama Anderson on Mar. 26, 2021There are no comments yet. 3409 Views
A TEEN'S PALO ALTO
My thoughts on the anti-Asian attacksAttacks against Asians in California, in 2021 alone: On January 28, 2021, an elderly Thai-American man, Vicha Ratanapakdee, was assaulted in San Francisco, later...
Original post made by Jessica Zang on Mar. 19, 2021Last comment by Myles Peck Ph.D, on Mar 24, 2021 at 8:26 am | 89 comments | 25010 Views
TODDLING THROUGH THE SILICON VALLEY
St. Patrick’s Day FunNot surprisingly, last St. Patrick’s Day we focused our time and energy on learning how to stay safe during the pandemic, how to get the groceries we needed,...
Original post made by Cheryl Bac on Mar. 17, 2021Last comment by Memphis299, on Mar 23, 2021 at 11:35 am | 1 comment | 2094 Views
A NEW SHADE OF GREEN
I don't believe in laundry stripsI don’t believe in laundry strips. Is something wrong with me, and what does this mean for our chances of dealing with climate change?
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Original post made by Sherry Listgarten on Mar. 7, 2021Last comment by Sherry Listgarten, on Mar 21, 2021 at 8:57 pm | 16 comments | 4316 Views
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
What I Saw on Mulberry Street – and other cultural revisionsWriting about racism in our society today is always a delicate – and sometimes a dicey -- matter. Some people, it seems, are rushing to declare a book as “racist”...
Original post made by Diana Diamond on Mar. 9, 2021Last comment by ariel fleming, on Mar 19, 2021 at 11:40 am | 72 comments | 7554 Views
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A fond farewell from the Peninsula Foodist
By paloaltoonline.com | 8 comments | 3,118 views
Palo Alto Utilities breeds mistrust with lack of transparency around outages
By Sherry Listgarten | 28 comments | 3,039 views
Palo Alto has an escalating transparency problem -- the police have shut their doors
By Diana Diamond | 6 comments | 1,377 views
Porn
By Chandrama Anderson | 2 comments | 633 views
