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Love your craft beer article! I remember Wolfgang Puck's brewery well, I was so excited when it opened, complete with gourmet pretzels. In college I profiled Sonoma Country's New Albion Brewing, the first American craft beer brewery, which influenced Sierra Nevada and many others.

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I had no idea currents were once illegal in the US!

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Looking at that menu reminded me (sadly) that my Farallon had closed. Their oyster bar was just plain superb!

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Two of my husband’s ancestors were charged with guarding the beer on the second voyage of the Mayflower.

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Before I stopped drinking, I'd had Anchor Steam, Lowenbrau Dark, Watney's Red Barrel and Jamaican Red Stripe beer. Recently I started trying Nonalcoholic Beer, after a disastrous experiment some years back with O'Doul's, easily the WORST beer of any kind anywhere! I'm pleasantly surprised to see NA craft breweries springing up - Athletic Beer Company, Brewdog, Gruvi - as well as NA versions of the leaded beers I knew or had heard of.

It's lovely to share a beer with friends and know I'm driving home sober....

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My 92 year old father-in-law is obsessed with you! He was an old ad-man back in the day - art director and traveled extensively. He has quite a collection of old menus - we have a few and they're amazing! He wishes to contact you and give you the menus - he thinks you'll find them interesting and you probably will! They range from the 1970's on and are mainly from U.S. restaurants and a few from France. May he contact you, please? Love your books - I have them all and "my kitchen year" is dog eared, post its stuck everywhere and finger printed...! Keep writing, please!

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72 Market Street was one of my favorite hangouts and the chef, Leonard Schwartz, was not only talented but a "mensch" as well. I miss the restaurant so much, as well as Ports and several others. The menu brought back so many memories.

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