FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Roast pork loin with maple glaze as photographed on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS)
Maple syrup: It’s not just for pancakes
Daniel Neman, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
You may as well admit it. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. You do it. We all do it.
When you cook with maple syrup, and some of the syrup clings tenaciously to the measuring spoon or cup, you wipe it out with your finger and then lick the syrup off the finger. Don’t you?
Of course you do. That’s the treat for the cook, a little something extra you deserve for doing the work. A present to yourself. And it is a well-known scientific fact that maple syrup licked off a finger has no calories. It is an inexplicable scientific phenomenon that is equally true of syrup licked off of spatulas.
48 Bay Area restaurants serving special New Year s Eve feasts for takeout
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Truffle tagliatelle is one of the New Year s Eve specials from San Francisco restaurant Che Fico.Erik Ratensperger
Even more than ringing in the new year, it’s time to celebrate the end of 2020 and Bay Area restaurants are ready to facilitate.
Restaurants typically roll out elaborate, multi-course meals for New Year’s Eve, and many are continuing the tradition this year with takeout tasting menus highlighting luxury ingredients like caviar, truffles and lobster. Others are opting for spreads of fun bites, cheese and charcuterie the sort of grazing you might expect at a house party, only much smaller. A few are spotlighting cultural traditions, such as eating soba noodles on the last day of the year, while others are keeping things relatively low-key with a few a la carte specials joining their normal menus.