I love good food and I hear that I can cook really well. I've been cooking since I was a kid. About the same amount of time I've been drawing. Most people who know me well know this already. If I weren't in the art business, I'd be a photographer or a chef, no doubt.

So, one of my favorite places to eat in the world is Swan Oyster Depot in San Francisco.



The oyster is the perfect food and when you get great ones like I had in SF, they are truly sublime. All you need is a tiny squeeze of lemon or a drizzle of mignonette and you're ready to go.

The flavors and textures are so clean and pure.

I had 2 dozen Kumamotos(only 1 dozen shown below), which were superb. Sweet and tasty. I wanted to order 3 dozen more, but hey....this was breakfast :)



I also had a dozen Blue Point oysters and those were more briny and significantly larger.



Seafood salad with fresh Dungeness crab(in season back in Nov when I was there), cocktail shrimp and regular shrimp. So fresh and so good.



One day when I get some time away from work and go back to the Bay area, I will step onto hallowed ground at the French Laundry.


And you thought this blog was just about art.