Embrace the pursuit of unadulterated pleasure through S.F. s fancy ice cream
One year into the pandemic, remember that pleasure is elemental
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Good Children is a dessert pop-up that sells ice cream by the pint and cookies. Here s a plate of its cookies and milk chocolate, French vanilla and avocado mint chip flavors.Serena Dai / The Chronicle
Like many others right now, I’m struggling to multitask, fighting to find energy to complete simple errands and all the while feeling guilt over being lazy. There is, however, one task I complete almost every week, organizing my weekend plans around the pickup window and sometimes anxiously sitting in traffic after a hike with one singular thought: Am I going to get my ice cream?
The best Bay Area food pop-ups of 2020
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The flood of food pop-ups this year isn’t suprising. When many hospitality industry workers were thrown to the wind amid mass pandemic-era layoffs and instability, it makes sense that they’d continue to do what they do best: cook.
In the Bay Area, we’ve seen numerous micro-businesses emerge, selling barbecued ribs outside of bars, cooking out of food hubs and dropping off intricately assembled pastries at customers’ homes. Many culinary professionals have taken this opportunity to put into practice the concepts they’ve only dreamed about while working in other people’s kitchens.