As many of you know, I was on vacation in San Francisco for almost a week and a half.

My partner, “B”, lives in San Francisco and I live in New York. We see each other every couple of months and keep in touch with each other via the power of Greyskull…er, I mean, the miracle of modern technology.

Since this is a food blog that chronicles my fascination with the beauty and wonder of the world of food, there’s a higher than normal concentration of food-related photography as opposed to San Francisco street scenes this time around. Previous “SF snapshot” posts can be viewed here and here. As usual, clicking any of the photographs in the mosaic below will bring up a slideshow. Enjoy the pix.

PS. The cookbook pix are from Green Apple Books, 506 Clement Street at 6th Avenue, in the Richmond district. Anyone who reads and/or collects cookbooks should take note of the store. It’ll be well worth your time if you ever find yourself visiting the City.

Bay shrimp cocktail.

Oil and wares.

Tomatoes.

Cookbooks.

Strawberries.

Assorted nuts.

Cookbooks.

Cookbooks.

Pernil asado, served with Spanish rice, maduros, braised red beans and a side salad.

Food writing.

Presidio Heights.

Cookbooks.

Fort Mason.

“Gold-nugget” mandarin oranges.

Strawberries.

Mexican chocolate, from Rancho Gordo.

Funny sign.

Squashes.

Pastelon (sweet plantains layered with ground beef, raisins, onion and peppers), served with Spanish rice, maduros, braised white beans and a side salad.

Interior.

Warm chocolate cake, pistachio gelato.

Haas avocadoes. These were at a vendor at the Ferry Building farmers’ market.

Cookbooks.

Eggs benedict with Creole hollandaise sauce, fried catfish, cream biscuit and cheddar cheese grits.

Potato hash.

Salumi.

Mural.

Sweet potato pancakes, warm butter pecan sauce.

Spaghetti with meat sauce.

Key lime tart, whipped cream.

Fiddlehead ferns and oyster mushrooms.

General Tso’s chicken, fried rice.

Raspberries.

Parada 22, a sweet little restaurant that serves Puerto Rican home food and is located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood.

Night scene in North Beach.

Heirloom beans, at the Rancho Gordo store in the Ferry Building.

Market Street.

Cheese.

Marina.

Greens.

A plethora of tomatoes.

Cookbooks.

Tomatoes.

Cookbooks.

“Donut” white peaches.