Grabbed this for $3 at Half Price Books because of the San Francisco connection.

How charming to read about how the author and her husband snagged a complete bakery grade mixer at the Purple Heart for $10.95. I am actually thinking about trying out some of the recipes. If only I'd had the one for whole plums this summer when they were in season, I long to try a plum sugar cake...

This book is chock full of interesting food-related adventures: going mushrooming in the damp hills, visiting the cheesemaker way out on the sheep ranch, plumbing Tomales Bay for oysters, how to cook crawfish. Stories about the author's friend Jerome's big old plum tree that produced incomparable fruit.

I sat with this over my lunch for a week or so. It added some cachet to the leftovers.