Fruitqueen Discount, California Map Recap, SF Oyster Guide, How to Score Butter & Crumble + More
California Eating is a California Girl!
I am late to the fruitqueen party, but I’ve caught up and am now obsessed with this “fruit-forward fan club!” It’s like a CSA, but no subscription is required, and delivery is a flat $9.
Loquats, Dr. White cherimoya and Booth cherimoya from Condor Ridge in Goleta
Japanese Suki strawberries from Ichigo in Salinas
The big fruitqueen box
Like many sites, fruitqueen offers customers a personal referral link to share a discount with friends. Use my referral link for $10 off your first order (and I get $5 credit for my next one!). I’m not a paid spokesmodel, but I should be. Learn more in my video, which I made as a homework assignment for Franchesca Ramsey’s content creator masterclass, The Brand Is Strong!
Map Recap: What I’ve Shared So Far
Soosoo latte with sweet corn ice cream by Harucake in Koreatown
I put a casual Google map in most issues as a prelude to bigger guides in the future. However, they’re easy to miss, so I thought I’d recap the 12 that I’ve shared so far:
• 200 Favorite Bay Area Restaurants, a cheeky nod to the Chronicle’s Top 100
• Favorite Places to Eat in Koreatown in Los Angeles
• Favorite Places to Eat on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood
• Favorite Places to Eat in SGV aka San Gabriel Valley
• Favorite Places to Eat on Clement Street in San Francisco
• 25 Favorite Dim Sum Restaurants in CA
• Favorite Places to Eat in Hollywood
• My Repeat Camera Roll Food Offenders in the Bay Area and LA
• Favorite Donut Shops in San Francisco
• Favorite Farmers Markets in California… so far
• Favorite Places to Eat in Santa Monica
• Favorite Places to Eat on El Camino Real, from South San Francisco to San Jose
Good Taste: Oyster Guide and the Game of Butter & Crumble
Grilled oysters Suleyman at Dalida in San Francisco
I have two editions of my Good Taste columns at 48 Hills to share with you today, because I ran a special 420 interview in last week’s letter. First is a guide to unusual oyster preparations in San Francisco, featuring current favorite restaurants like Dalida and Copra.
Large pastry box from Butter & Crumble in SF
This week in GOOD TASTE, I spent eight weeks playing the game of trying to score a preorder pastry box from Butter & Crumble and assessed whether it was worth the effort and expense (the picture is pretty much a big spoiler that it totally was!).
As always, you can find more thought for food on the California Eating blog!
More letters by Tamara Palmer
New: Food Book Club! I’ve got so many fun online stories, recipes, author interviews and more in-person cookbook swaps planned for this fresh project. (We launched on 4/20 with a cookbook swap at Studio Aurora/Fault Radio in San Francisco, and will do more there and around Los Angeles this year.) I’d be honored if you would consider subscribing!
Ditto for Music Book Club, which is hitting a stride with incredible author interviews right now.
Weekly job listings and trends are interesting to read, whether or not you are looking.
And my personal music newsletter, which is published on an erratic schedule, but is always fun! I’m going to pick up the pace with it shortly.
