http://www.dicum.com/clips Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:40:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 February 11, 2010 Lung Shan is an unremarkable Chinese restaurant in the Mission District. But on Thursday and Saturday nights it’s rocked by an invasion of diners and chefs with much more than sweet and sour pork on their minds. On those nights, Lung Shan becomes Mission Street Food, one of ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=109 January 1, 2010 At high noon on Oct. 25, 2008, the zeppelin Eureka glided over the Golden Gate Bridge, around San Francisco’s waterfront, and then south to land lightly at Moffett Field in Mountain View — the first dirigible to grace the region’s skies since the days when Silicon Valley ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=108 January 1, 2010 At Om Shan Tea, the air is filled with the clatter of small earthenware teapots, the sound of ethereal gongs and flutes and quiet animated conversation. Tea drinkers cluster on reed stools around low tables surrounded by antiques from tea-drinking lands. Oshan Anand, the owner of this year-old ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=107 August 23, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO has a well-deserved reputation for restaurant fare that is freshly inventive, but with studiously authentic roots. Gastón Acurio, a celebrity chef in Lima, Peru, known for his novo-Andino cuisine, which adds modern sensibilities about freshness, presentation and technique to the culinary traditions of Peru, took note ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=106 Jun 4th 2009 Cars are becoming more connected, both to remote systems for navigation and information, and to each other IN “KNIGHT RIDER”, a 1980s television show, Michael Knight fought for justice with the help of KITT, an artificially intelligent Pontiac Trans Am. The pair chatted amiably, with KITT sensing and reacting ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=105 May 29, 2009 “Why should it be absurd to suggest that the potato changed world history?” John Reader asks in “Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent.” If the claim seems odd to those for whom the tuber is little more than a mainstay of comfort foods, Reader argues that its ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=104 March 1, 2009 FIRECRACKERS rained down like hail, filling the street with sulfurous billows. Young men, dressed in white, waved towels, trying to keep the explosives away from the black-faced god seated in the ornate sedan chair that some of them held aloft. There, in the center of it all, Phuket ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=103 February 22, 2009 In a stylish space of cast concrete and rare woods, subdued accent lighting and elegant sightlines just off Market Street, glowing wine bottles are tended by black-clad staff. Small clusters of unpretentious wine lovers (some in pearls, some in sneakers) chat quietly. In this, Press Club summarizes the ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=102 LUXURY DESTINATION OF THE YEAR January 11, 2009 I wasn’t far out from the beach — just beyond the lightly rolling breakers. My feet had left the sandy bottom, and amniotic water burbled around my shoulders. A sea eagle sailed between me and the hot afternoon sun. The starburst tops of a ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=101 Dec 27, 2008 THE bartender at the Alembic took my order for a mint julep. He unfolded a small canvas sack, which he filled with ice and laid on the bar. He took up a black bat and began whaling on the pouch, reaching above his head to pummel the bag ... http://www.dicum.com/clips/index.php?p=100