Street-Food Vendor Eschews Twitter (and Political Correctness)
By Tamara Palmer in Palmer, Pavement Cuisine
Mon., Nov. 16 2009 @ 9:00AM
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| T. Palmer |
| The name is humorous, but the food is serious. |
We finally ran into him in Precita Park yesterday, and asked what gives with the potentially offensive moniker.
"I'm Jewish," KoaB told SFoodie. "If you can't laugh at yourself, what can you do?"
His food, luckily, was serious: a stimulating North African dish of flatbread, ground beef, roasted eggplant puree, tomato coulis, chickpeas, fennel seeds, onions, and a lob of intense, homemade harissa that was much darker in color than the prefab kind from a tube.
"This dish has been with me a long time," he explained, "but I'm going to play around with serving it over couscous. I also want to try making some Moroccan soups; there's a leg soup that is really hearty." (He didn't say what kind of leg.)
KoaB revealed that he often sets up in front of Amnesia (853 Valencia at 19th St.) on Friday nights, and catches hungry people coming out of the bar. He doesn't have a Twitter account, and is not particularly concerned with people being able to track down his every move.
"It's street food," he said. "You don't invite people to street food."
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