Angelika In a city changing at a crazy speed, it's reassuring when not everything falls victim to the excavator's tooth or the craze for national chain stores. In our neighborhood, at the corner of Valencia and 22nd Street, there is an Italian delicatessen called "Lucca Ravioli Co." where delicious Italian sausages and groceries have been available for purchase since 1925.
The shop is small, but it has a long sausage and cheese counter that stretches throughout the entire store. Behind the counter stand salespeople in white coats and white hats on their heads, who still understand their craft. Fans of Italian delicacies will get their money's worth here: salami, ham, cheese, homemade pasta, olive oil, grappa, everything your Italian heart desires. We recently bought a super delicious tongue sausage there, which immediately delighted the salesperson, as the majority of Americans apparently feel queasy at the mere thought of tongue sausage.
We ate the sausage right away on the good bread from Josey Baker, super delicious! Like Michael previously reported in Rundbrief 09/2014, Josey Baker is a trendy baker in San Francisco, and his last name is actually "Baker," He bakes really good bread, like the kind we know from Germany. Such businesses are reminiscent of the old San Francisco from twenty years ago, which is now threatened with extinction. I hope that butcher Lucca will remain with us for a long time.
Greetings from the city in transition:
Angelika & Michael