Golden information

I have mixed feelings about Caron Golden’s blog, San Diego Foodstuff (www.sandiegofoodstuff.com). I’ve long been a fan of Golden’s writing in the Union-Tribune’s food section and in Edible San Diego magazine. She’s also a food columnist for the San Diego News Network website, where her article about Latin American food markets caught my eye this morning. A link there led me to her blog, of which I previously was unaware. The excessive amount of time I spent today reading back through her posts caused my emotional turmoil: dismay that I’ve missed so much by not reading it since its inception almost three years ago, but elation at finding it now.

For the most part, Golden isn’t reviewing restaurants, but rather reporting on interesting food sources she’s unearthed — ethnic markets, specialty shops, farmer’s markets. I now literally have a list of places on my desk I’m now eager to explore, after reading through less than a year of posts: the stall at the Little Italy Mercato selling exotically flavored gourmet popcorn, the new wholesaler of high-end French cheeses and other products, the extraordinary vendor of teas and tea-making knowledge in South Park, the Kearny Mesa South African deli and grocer, and more.  So much food, so little time! .

And oh yes, reading the posts also made me hungry. The good news: I now have so many new ways to solve that problem. The bad: that I already had so many ways to do so that I’m eating as little as possible, to shed 10 pounds.