Last Night: Taste 2008 at Root Division
Taste 2008 Food and Art Extravaganza
Root Division, at 3175 17th Street
Notes by Janine Kahn
April 17, 2008
Last night, flanked by fancy food and fancier people, I ate dirt.
OK, maybe drank is the more accurate term, since the nice ladies behind the counter inside the Mission's Root Division studios did swirl it around in a wine glass with some water before handing it over, instructing me to inhale the earthy aroma while chewing on a leaf. Actually tasting the soil wasn't exactly on the regular agenda, mind you, but the woman attending to me confessed she'd tried it, and I was not to be undone.
I felt rabbit-like, unhinged, torn from my true carnivorous nature, and quickly turned to the table handing out salami samples. Instantly, all was right with the world.
