Pizza

Berkeley, California, May 25, 2012—

NOT YET TERRIBLY HUNGRY, and anyway not wanting to eat heavily before a concert, we ducked into a familiar place for salad and a pizza. The salad was interesting and rather good, involving lettuce and frisée, asparagus, a poached egg, and a mayonnaise dressing. I thought my "Molto Aglissimo" pizza a little blander than the description suggested — "roasted garlic, roasted green garlic, fresh chopped garlic, spring onion, parmesan, fontina" — but that was perhaps as well since we were after all going out into society afterward.

Martinis

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