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Half Moon Restaurant & Saloon
Ratings: 16 | Reviews: 13 | Display Reviews Only:
3.25/5 rDev -17.7%
06-24-2014 01:29:34 | More by jwjon1
4/5 rDev +1.3%
03-07-2014 03:07:08 | More by Barnsley
4.5/5 rDev +13.9%
12-22-2013 02:27:08 | More by Corburk
3.86/5 rDev -2.3%
This place is pretty cool. Kennet Square is a very nice and historical area. The surrounding shops are cool. The draw for me was I saw it on the Travel Channel a few years ago and never had a chance to make it there until recently.
Half Moon is nice. The exterior loos great and gives way to a disappointing interior. Very plain white subway tiles.
The beer selection was very nice. Had a couple beers I never had before so that was exciting.
The main reason for going there was for the food. They specialize in exotic game meats. And they form the game meat into something familiar like a cheese burger. I had gotten the elk burger, was hoping for kangaroo but was not on the list for that particular day. The food is good, in my opinion and the service we received was great. The staff was very helpful.
If you have a weekend afternoon off, definitely check out the Half Moon.
09-08-2013 12:07:24 | More by mikefuski17
3.95/5 rDev 0%
A - The atmosphere is really a tale of two stories... The interior is "average"... The roof top area is "good"... We were seated on the rooftop and grealy enjoyed ourselves...
Q - No complaints here... Overall we had a very enjoyable late saturday afternoon / evening sitting and relaxing on the rooftop...
Ser - No complaints in the department... Initial contact was a bit on the slow side, but thereafter it was very solid... Beers always arrived in record time...
Sel - The food selection was diverse and refreshing... The beer selection was solid (but a bit overpriced)... OVerall the combo of beer and food was very intriguing...
F - The menu was creative... The overall quality of the food was good... The crab nachos are a must... The Buffaloaf was excellent... My wife's quesidillas were a bit dissappointoing... The deserts were slightly above average...
V - A bit on the pricey side, but I can't complain given the overall unique nature of the menu...
Overall, not a "beer" destination in itself, but combined with a unique and eclectic menu, it is a destination worthy checiking out...
05-31-2010 02:27:24 | More by philbe311
3.88/5 rDev -1.8%
I met fellow BA stewdawg here for a meetup so he could collect his winnings for Beer Powerball week two.
A nice vibe as you come in with a long, 30 seat bar to your right and an open dining area in the back of the room. A nicely tiled floor with a tin celing give it a classic look. Light background music completed the charming ambiance.
With 17 taps and 3 hand pulls the brew selection was quite nice. I have heard that the hand pulls do not change up very often but during my visit they had on Victory Hop devil AND Hop Wallop (hell yeah) plus Troegs Hop Back. The CO2 lines were well varied and offered up a fairly full array of styles.
Our bartender was fine...nothing outstanding but she did a fine job. I didnt have to wait long between brews and she took care of us in a timely manner.
An interesting, if a bit pricey menu. A strong focus on wild game dishes to include lots of buffalo, I got the "Buffalo Loaf" which was VERY tasty despite being about half the amount I could have eaten. Also on the menu...llama burgers and yak sloppy joes!
All in all a nice place to grab a few pints and an interesting meal in the very attractive downtown section of Kennett Square.
02-01-2009 11:53:09 | More by Deuane
3.7/5 rDev -6.3%
The best beer bar in Kennett Square, the Half Moon would be a good place in almost any town.
Atmosphere is very good in the post-smoking ban era. A long L-shaped bar with about 20 seats and a bunch of booths and tables behind. There is also an upstairs bar and small dining room.
There are twenty taps, almost all good quality, including three hand pumps. The beer selection does not rotate enough for my liking. The hand pumps almost always have Yards ESA, Troegs Hopback and Victory Hop Devil. Good beers all, but it would be nice to change it up. Good bottle list too, mainly in the Belgian segment. Again, a bit too samey from visit to visit, but good quality.
Food is pretty good, though very heavy on game and a bit limited. I was curious to taste a llama burger, I guess, but at $14, I'll never know.
And this is my gripe with the Half Moon. Prices are exorbitant by the standards of a beer bar, especially for the beer. $10.95 for a glass of St. Bernardus 12 (!), $6 for a pint of Stella or Hoegaarden or Bass. Domestic taps run about $5.75 for a pint. I rarely pay attention to prices (shame on me I guess) but I about fell off my stool when the check came.
Service can be hit or miss, but was very good on our last visit. Depends on which bartender you get.
11-10-2008 14:10:27 | More by sholland119
North Carolina
3.13/5 rDev -20.8%
This bar/restaurant is located in the charming downtown of Kennett Square, PA, which I learned that evening is the #1 U.S. grower of mushrooms, which are exported all over the country. Hails to that! The Half Moon puts an emphasis on quality Belgians and U.S. micros. They offer Urthel, Westmalle, Trappistes Rochefort, Achel, Leffe, Delirium Tremens, the Chimays, Saison Dupont, and some others. They served my friend's Leffe in a regular pint glass, and when my Westmalle bottle arrived she asked me, "do you need a glass with that?" Duh. Not too classy. She eventually brought one of those very heavy generic goblet-style glasses that feels more like a mug hoist with each lift. But okay, fine...
The food was very good, although we had a big problem with one particular dish. My friend Matt has a serious allergy to shellfish/crustaceans, and the artichoke chips/dip we ordered had crab in it, despite NO MENTION of this on the menu. He started to feel the effects but luckily didn't get enough in his system to result in a major reaction. I'm also vegetarian, so this plate went to waste and we were both upset about the lack of disclosure. They didn't charge us for it, after we complained. We suggested they be a little more clear in their menu description, but who knows if anybody really cares. It's the right thing to do, unless they don't mind offending customers with allergies or special diets.
Another downfall: Smoke. Everywhere. In a straight beer bar, it's annoying enough, but acceptable. In a restaurant, it's just plain wrong. Had a nice comfortable atmosphere otherwise, lots of wood, and a very casual, even old-west feel. But that smoking thing, and the seafood thing, and the poor form on the glasses....eh...won't be making any kind of special detour to go there again.
06-26-2008 00:13:42 | More by Metalmonk
4.33/5 rDev +9.6%
I decided to head to Half Moon for some lunch and a beer or two before going to the Kennett Beer Fest. Good decision on my part. I sat at the bar directly on your right when you walk in. It has about 20 seats or so. There are booths lining the left wall all the way back and it looked like some tables were back on the right. There is also some rooftop seating for those wanting some fresh air. Good selection with about 15 taps or so and 3 hand pulled beer engine taps. Decent bottle selection of mostly Belgian offerings. The food was very good. Antelope burger was amazing, buffalo burger was great, too. Blackened alligator was a hit also. I told my wife I am going to bring her up here soon for dinner. The wild game on the menu is a nice touch. Good beer, good food, good place.
10-08-2007 12:38:54 | More by Imstillthegman
3.4/5 rDev -13.9%
Had a friday night dinner in the roof top deck area. A little too cool to open up the huge garage doors, but nonetheless, a nice view from the top of the building. Very nice mood upstairs, but so dark, they have a cache of flashlights to hand out. Odd, I thought. Service was good, albeit occassionally absent. The beer list is exactly as it souold be. As advertised, they are a Belgian Beer bar. The prices for the entrees are really up there for what you get. Spent time after at the bar for a couple of the handpumps described by Nate, with the Troegs being Nugget Nectar vs. Hopback. I recommend a trip, and will give the restaurant another shot. The downstairs atmosphere was much more pleasing to me. Biggest plus of the night, bottles of Samual Smith Oatmeal Stout. Lovely.
04-06-2007 16:19:57 | More by boelker62
Half Moon Restaurant & Saloon in Kennett Square, PA
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Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009 12:00PM
Bow Wow has released a new "mystery" video which informs fans of a big announcement that he plans to make sometime this week.
Using a coded voice and showing images of an abandoned home, Bow Wow's 47-second video landed online Sunday (August 9).
"People have been wondering where I've been," a voice says on the rapper's YouTube page. "For the past days, I've been here, keeping away from all human contact. Thinking. Strategizing my next move. I'll come out of hiding when it is time. This is a new me. A new look, for now. This is all you see. The mystery continues." (Prince Bow Wow's YouTube Page)
Last month, the rapper informed fans of his indecision to choose which record label he should sign to.
"How many yall think I should sign with atlantic records n get wit T.I.?," he wrote on Sunday (July 19). "Gand hustle homie! Mr kev liles hopefully ill see yall tuesday. Or should I help jd rebuild so so def. Man up become a boss. And sign sum n*ggas that will bring us bk to da so so def yall luv n remember?" (Bow Wow's Twitter)
The rapper's upcoming signing also caught the attention of The Game who previously won in a publicized Madden 2009 footaball challenge against him last year.
"@BOWOW614 I HAD A LAMBO WHEN YOU WAS STILL EATIN PUPPY CHOW DRINKIN THAT BREAST MILK LMAO....," Game wrote Friday (July 17). "IGHT MY N*GGA... HIT ME WHEN U READY. 1 LOVE...@bowwow614 sign to I'mAbUM@madden Records n*gga.!!!" (The Game's Twitter)
Bow Wow, who confirmed his departure from Columbia Records earlier this summer, previously pleaded with his record company to allow him to be released from a contractual obligation.
"I'm going to talk directly into the camera because I know people are probably in the office getting calls saying Bow Wow was on here talking about he wants off Columbia Records," he said in a video. "Everybody in the office at Columbia Records, do me a favor. My fans, they see it. They recognize it. They see you guys ain't working as hard as you guys used to work back in 2000. It's a big difference, they see it...Can you please grant me this one wish? Columbia, can you please grant me this wish and let me go? That's all I'm asking, please let me go. Please, please, please, please, please, please. Thank y'all, I'm out." (Justin TV)
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Gingery Apple Crumb Pie
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- Basic Flaky Piecrust
- or 1 store-bought piecrust, fitted into a 9-inch pie plate
- 1/2 cup cup cold unsalted butter (1 stick), cut into small pieces
- 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 1/2 pounds apples (about 5; such as Granny Smith, Braeburn, or Empire), peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- Set an oven rack in the lowest position and heat oven to 375º F. Place the pie plate on a foil-lined baking sheet.
- In a food processor, pulse the butter, ¾ cup of the flour, and ¼ cup of the sugar until large clumps form. Transfer to a bowl and refrigerate until ready to use.
- In a large bowl, toss the apples, ginger, cinnamon, salt, and the remaining ½ cup of sugar and tablespoon of flour.
- Transfer the apple mixture to the crust, sprinkle with the crumb topping, and bake until the top is golden and the apples are tender, 55 to 60 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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- Per Serving
- Calories 502
- Fat 23g
- Sat Fat 15g
- Cholesterol 60mg
- Sodium 186mg
- Protein 4g
- Carbohydrate 72g
- Fiber 4g
What does this mean? See Nutrition 101 .
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The pie can be prepared and stored at room temperature, loosely covered with foil, for up to 1 day.
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Tech mogul Ron Conway is trying to buy San Francisco politics and sell his pro-business agenda
11.27.12 - 4:27 pm | Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez and Tim Redmond |
Ron Conway has spent more in the last two elections than any other San Franciscan.
To be a part of his exclusive investment club you had to have a minimum net worth of at least a million dollars, or have a famous name, according to Rivlin. Countless of the Internet's rising stars joined Angel Investors and its successor companies. Cobbled from myriad business journals is a small list from among many of Conway's chosen: Dean Morton of Hewlett Packard, golfer Tiger Woods, Stanford University Engineering Dean Jim Gibbons, Twitter CEO Biz Stone, entertainer MC Hammer, venture capitalist Frank Quattrone, and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.
For a man who made his fortune investing in the hottest names in tech, Conway is often described as a bit of an anti-tech Luddite. Not relying on product knowledge, his strategy boils down to this: Conway trusts his first impression of a startup's CEO. He goes with his gut, as he explains in a free Stanford YouTube class featuring Conway.
And though sometimes his companies would fail, the successes more than made up for those failures — so much so, that he had to expand. Conway started new LLCs to handle his expanding investments. Angel Investors II started with $150 million, according to Rivlin. SV Angel III and IV were no slouches either, starting with investments of $40 million apiece, according to SEC filings for the companies.
The number of investments from Angel Investors at the time of Rivlin's 2001 book was already well over the hundreds. And the most recent numbers for SVAngel, from 2011, list the number of startups they've invested in at 290 companies.
Conway disciple David Lee officially took over as head of the Angels last year, according to California business filings, but several sources indicate Conway is still the largest investor in the various "Angel" branded companies.
Conway is also the head of a long list of other shadowy businesses, all incorporated in Delaware for its lax tax and regulatory policies. Among the more than a dozen companies just in San Francisco that list Conway as president, partner, founder, or agent-of-service — for which most have little information publicly available — are SV Angel Management Holding, RC Chirp Fund LLC, RC Chirp Management LLC, 2000 Washington Street, 2006 Washington Street, Conway Family Foundation, and Magillicutty LLC.
What separates Angel Investors, though, from the usual investment angels, is Conway's unique way of leveraging his network, known as his "Rontourage." Hundreds of tech luminaries and celebrities tied to Conway's Angel companies have an understanding that they will trade favors, according to Rivlin's book.
"The only caveat, whether you joined a side fund, an advisory board, or Angel Investors, was that you should lend a hand when you could," Rivlin wrote. "If you're in the club, you can do someone a favor and trust that somehow you're going to get repaid for that favor," tech entrepreneur Jad Duwaik told Rivlin.
That strategy goes a long way towards explaining what Conway is doing in San Francisco.
Mayor Lee nows seems to be getting the royal Conway treatment, and the companies Conway invests in are getting strong support from the Mayor's Office at City Hall, from the tax breaks that Twitter and Zynga received last year to this year's unsuccessful effort to maintain Ainbnb's exemption from the transient occupancy tax (a decision made by the Treasurer/ Tax Collector's Office, which defied Lee's public lobbying on the issue).
SV Angel has investments or equity in over 103 total San Francisco startups, according to SV Angel documents leaked to Fortune last year, including Airbnb, Digg, Formspring, Wikia, EventBrite, Zynga, StumbleUpon, Justin.TV, and a little company called Twitter.
Most of us are doing pretty well and are happy.
Posted by Anonymous on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 5:48 pm
Of course the priviledged elite (and their paid supporters) would try to dismiss Ana as a rare malcontent who would be better off somewhere else, but that argument won't fool many of us. Ana expresses thoughts quite well that speak a lot of truth - the federal and state governments have been waging economic war on lower and middle income working people for many decades, while allowing big capital and wealthy landlords to accrue more and more of the nation's and world's wealth.
It's not an accident that the bottom 2/3 of society pay a huge percentage of their income for regressive payroll and sales taxes, while capital owners, big landlords and bondholders pay far lower percentages. But it's no different than the UK or Japan or other developed economies - the regressive payroll, VAT, and sales taxes have helped destroy their lower and middle income classes too, while their small group of property owners, stock and bondholders accumulate vast fortunes as well.
If ever these same-situated fairly well-educated groups in cities and countries across the world would get together to fight for their common economic interests against hostile governments and the extremely wealthy, there might be a chance they can start to see an improvement to their standard of living one day.
"... The UK Liberal Democrat chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, told the conference today that "we need to get wealthy individuals to pay a fairer share" towards the government's tax take.
"In this country, we tax work, effort and income too highly and unearned wealth far too little," he said. "Now you can move your money offshore but you can't move your mansion. That's why we want a mansion tax. It's simple, it's fair, it's unavoidable."
Posted by Guest on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 6:47 pm
Local property taxes in the UK are paid by the occupant, which is often the tenant.
So are you suggesting we adopt that system here? If so, I am all for it ;-)
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So you can post the work of others. This is a comment site. You're contributing nothing - which is probably the exact nature of your problem in life anyway.
Posted by Lucretia Snapples on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 6:26 pm
Here here!
Posted by Joseph Thomas on Dec. 04, 2012 @ 11:10 am
but increasing discrepancy between the rich and the poor impoverishes the later more profoundly.
Note what happens to pricing of housing or the land on which food can otherwise be grown -- and so many other finite and semi-finite commodities -- when the rich become rich enough to collect such in quantities beyond reason.
Look at the economy-jarring turbulence in the precious metals markets which was caused by too many questing ticks of the financial world looking for another blood meal.
Posted by lillipublicans on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 9:16 am
It's possibly that that leaves behind an underclass of poor people who have no worthwhile skills, and the rich-poor gap may be more as a result. But we'd all be poorer if the rich folks took all their money overseas and fired all their employees.
Posted by Guest on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 11:53 am
It's hard to not assume you are trolling, since your comment appears to be an attack against reason, but I'll take the time to break it down with a bit of logic.
The wealthy aren't altruistic right? Can we simply dispense with the idea that we lowly peons only have jobs because our patrons in the upper class want the best for us?
No, rather, when they "create jobs," they do so because there is demand for good and services that those workers who fill those jobs will produce.
If the wealthy took all their money overseas, we'd all be poorer alright -- even the very rich!; if they "fired all their employees," they'd also be firing all their customers.
One last thing: your concept of "worthwhile skills" is quite troubling.
I suppose it might make me a humanist, but I believe that economic criteria should *never* by themselves determine what "worthwhile skills" are.
I believe the economy should be fashioned by a functioning society to accord with our humanity. It should reflect our self-image and be subservient to human traits, rather than humanity being subservient to a transient and contrived economic system of our own devising.
Posted by lillipublicans on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 8:48 pm
...leaky rowboats, not so much. Folks treading water holding on to driftwood... even less so.
The problem is that America has abandoned the "grand bargain" that held for about 30 years after WWII, whereby wages roughly tracked increases in productivity. The rich were still rich -beyond the wildest dreams of most people in some cases -but the middle class was getting a share of the wealth.
But since the Reagan years, virtually all of the gains in productivity have gone to the very top. The working classes are working harder, but receiving nothing. They're the ones creating the wealth, but all that created wealth is being concentrated to the likes of Ron Conway, who then funnel some of that wealth into further subverting democracy in order to make conditions even more favorable to concentrating their wealth.
It's hard to see it when you're in the midst of it, but if you try to see this with a little bit of detachment, you do have to realize that it can't go on like this forever. There is a breaking point. When it will come, no one can predict. But inevitably it will come.
Posted by Greg on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 10:22 am
The genius of Reagan was to artificially increase asset prices - especially housing and stock prices - with generous business and investor write-offs (interest and phony depreciation deductions) coupled with low capital gain tax rates. Wealthy people bought assets for the rich deductions that offset their other income at a 35-50% tax rate (pre 1986 tax reform), but when they sold the assets they only paid tax at 10-20% (or sometimes no tax at all). Tax arbitrage 101. So of course real estate and the stock market skyrocketed, even though no real wealth was being created, only asset prices were increasing because of generous government tax write-offs.
But the 1970's weren't much better before Reagan either (which is partly why he was elected) since the economy was burdened with slowing output, high taxes on workers, and even higher inflation caused by an expansionary government (wars in SE Asia and Great Society programs) without corresponding taxes to pay for the programs expansion. High inflation destroyed the purchasing power of millions of modest earning families, but enriched the landlords and property speculators who saw rents and property prices dramatially increase in the 1970's forward.
Posted by Guest on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 4:58 pm
On the other hand, the workers at the companies that Conway invested in (Google, Facebook, etc...) are doing pretty well for themselves, aren't they? I've been reading in these very pages that they are likely to be buying million dollar condos. So maybe we can't blame him for all of society's inequities.
Posted by Troll on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 11:22 pm
This is just another bubble, a "tech bubble" this time. I hope the techies don't plow through their millions too quickly, because when the inevitable bust comes, they will be out on their asses, just like everyone else. Pop!
Besides, it is disingenuous to compare "workers" in the tech industry with those who are struggling to get by in the rest of the economy. The techies are closer to the financial elites who trade on misdirection and hype, while creating nothing of real value for the society at large.
Posted by Guest on Nov. 29, 2012 @ 4:11 pm
then you claim that the tech business "created nothing".
Posted by Anonymous on Nov. 29, 2012 @ 4:43 pm
Greg-give us some proof. Sounds like he has made money by investing wisely in new businesses- mostly in the tech sector. How has investing in companies like this sucked money from the middle class?
Posted by D. Native on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 8:44 am
Investment can go both ways.
Investment can destroy jobs. Investment can bid up the price of commodities in casino-style to be far out of synch with their practical value. That manifests itself as a cost to the economy. Just one example of this is how platinum was so high that people were chopping catalytic converters out of cars so they could be sold as scrap and turned into new cats.
Investors are not societal benefactors, but are simple attempting to get ahead of inflation; if they weren't depredating the commodities market, the real estate market, the off-shoring jobs by building factories in China market, etc. etc., they'd be forced to put their money in banks at .002% interest. Only one facet of investment pertains to financing good ideas which help society at large.
Obviously, Greg has quite properly pointed out that based on the general milieu this Conway developed his riches, he probably didn't do so to the benefit of others, but rather based on the suffering of others; such as scooping up fire-sale real-estate in which people had lost their equity.
Posted by lillipublicans on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 9:28 am
The article makes it pretty clear that he made his money through investing in new companies- not via real estate speculation etc.
Posted by D. Native on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 12:30 pm
No doubt Lilli lives in a house that at one time was the speculation of a property investor. And he probably works, if he has a job at all, in another such building.
Posted by Guest on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 12:41 pm
Tim isn't even a good propagandist.
He quotes multiple people with bad things to say about Conway but provides zero words from people who are Conway supporters. He should have at least tried to make this look like journalism through lip service. Or, maybe, why even bother.
I actually laughed out loud at the part about the Conway companies nefariously being incorporated in Delaware...whoo..... Of course 90% of the people reading this know that almost every large for profit company is a Delaware Corporation.
That's what I mean about Tim being a lame propagandist.
Tim's statement implying that sf.citi makes no effort to help anyone less than middle class is also laughable. In fact they bring together the local tech companies and the local schools to review the skills and curriculums that could help local graduates get good 21st century jobs right here in San Francisco.
What's wrong with that?
Go Ron!!!! The fact that people like Tim Redmond and taking feeble swings at you only mean that you are on the right track. I hope that next year's Redmond piece on you is twice as desparate! That will mean that you are doing even more to help SF.
Posted by Troll on Nov. 27, 2012 @ 8:11 pm
The entire premise of SFBG is political bias and prejudice, and hatred for anyone who isn't in their gang.
Posted by Guest on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 6:40 am
People in San Francisco need to stop asking the government for help instead you should ask what you can do for the government. taken from my citizenship class on John Kennedy. I came here 20 years ago, have wife and 2 kids, own a TIC, make a monthly purchase of groceries that last whole month, and I am raising 2 kids for a College Degree from San Francisco Public Schools.
Stop with stupid Rent Control and the Rents will go down because a major housing construction build up is going to happen in the City.
Posted by Guest Pablo Renteria on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 7:02 am
not asking for government handouts, welfare, regulations, subsidies or special treatment. Those things only enable crippling dependency and do nothing to build America.
Rent control does not solve SF's housing problem - it created it and makes it worse.
Posted by Guest on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 7:49 am
is a conversion of rental unit to a condo lite. So unless Pablo bought the unit he was renting, that conversion meant the eviction of a renter. That person or group most likely couldn't find a comparable apartment, which meant moving out of San Francisco, or into a much more expensive apartment, or onto the street, all major disruptions.
Rent control allows for a yearly rent increase. Don't be fooled. Landlords are making a killing in this town.
Rents are determined by what a landlord can charge. Any apartment built since 1979 is exempt. Once a rent controlled unit is vacant, its owner can charge whatever the market will bear.
Posted by Eddie on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 8:11 am
Many flats become TIC's because a tenant voluntarily leaves and then the landlord decides to sell the unit rather than rent it out again. So it becomes a TIC without any evidction.
Where a tenant is evicted to create a TIC, it is usually because of an Ellis Act eviction, which in turn only exist because rent control laws are so strict that landlords have an escape clause.
Finally, if a tenant does have to move because he cannot afford the rent, so be it. Not everyone has the fiscal power to live in the world's favorite city. I cannot afford to live in Switzerland but I don't whine about it or expect the government to fix that for me.
Posted by Guest on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 8:56 am
on evictions, they would show that the preponderance of vacancies for TIC's came from evictions, lawful and unlawful; harassment; or buyouts under extreme pressure
I know personally I was evicted twice for TIC's (owner move-in and Ellis Act). Fortunately, we had the income to find an overpriced, but still affordable apartment in the mid-2000's. If it happened now, we'd be SOL.
Perhaps other evictees who read this blog can share their experiences, or housing activists can provide the data to prove my statement.
Evictions equal homelessness. If you can't afford Switzerland, try Belgium. I hear the chocolate is good there also.
Posted by Eddie on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 9:26 am
only one of those unit vacancies was caused by an eviction, and that was an OMI which even Chris Daly agreed was a just cause and fair.
No landlord in his right mind would impose restrictions like that on his own property unless the alternative were even worse i.e. being stuck with a low-rent tenant for life.
Evictions are caused by rent control, and the rational responses to it.
Posted by Guest on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 11:56 am
If you TIC'ed two buildings consisting of five units and only evicted one unit, then you carried out an owner move in eviction in a building with an empty unit, which is illegal. Or the unit was in a single family house which wouldn't need to be TIC'ed.
Either way, there's a hole in your story. Congratulations on profiting from someone else's misfortune.
Do you still live in that unit? Did you ever? My landlord never lived in the unit from which he evicted us. He just pretended to by keeping a light on at night while living elsewhere.
Posted by Eddie on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 1:03 pm
building in the Mission that was fully tenant occupied. I OMI'ed my way into one unit, as the law allows. Later the other two sets of tenants left voluntarily, and I sold the building vacant as a 3-unit TIC.
I then bought a 2-unit building in the Castro. The previous owner was selling and his tenant had died of AIDS. I bought it and condo'ed it. Again, no eviction.
Posted by Guest on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 1:21 pm
You may have followed the law, but the purpose of the OMI just cause eviction is to provide a place for the owner of the building to live. You only intended to live there until you could resell the building at a profit.
So you followed the law, but fucked over the evicted tenant. You are not some struggling landlord hurt by rent control, but a real estate investor (speculator), using the law and market imperfections to your economic advantage over those that can't or won't profit from others misfortunes.
As I said, congratulations. You are good at making wealth for yourself from a fixed pie.
Posted by Eddie on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 1:34 pm
unit he performed the OMI on for at least 3 years. I complied with that.
If you don't like the law, then vote to change it, but don't blame those who fully comply with it.
Posted by Guest on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 1:45 pm
I don't know if you are the same "Guest" who constantly posits the rising tide falsehood, but I suspect you are.
In any event, your anecdote about TICs is a fine counterexample to the rising tide theory. You used real estate laws and housing market imperfections to improve your situation while the evicted tenants situation worsened. You created wealth for yourself without improving everyone's situation and most certainly diminishing the wealth of the party you evicted.
That is our economic system in a nutshell as so eloquently described by the comments of Steve and Greg above.
Posted by Eddie on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 1:26 pm
rightfully and lawfully evicted was worse off as a result?
He may have lost a subsidy that he enjoyed, but his ability to live in a city that realistically he could never afford was always doomed.
He moved to a more affordable place and area, and now has the advantage of knowing that no LL will ever feel an incentive to move him on.
A win-win scenario.
Posted by Guest on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 1:47 pm
not a win. When the tenant moved into the unit, he was paying market rent, and rent control allows for a yearly increase, so where's the subsidy? He realistically afforded the city when he moved into the apartment or he would have been evicted for non-payment of rent.
Posted by Eddie on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 2:23 pm
The other 40% of CPI is effectively a subsidy from the LL to the TT.
And given that market rent increases often trump inflation, the subsidy is more than that.
Times change, life moves on, and not everyone who could afford to live in the "world's favorite city" in 1980 can still afford it.
Posted by Anonymous on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 2:42 pm
The deduction of mortgage interest is a subsidy to property owners. Your tenant could still afford to live in SF if you hadn't evicted him. Usually, the winners rather than the losers in a scenario refer to it as "win-win."
Posted by Eddie on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 2:48 pm
about being able to afford a place to live in which his earnings power clearly doesn't entitle him or her to?
Enabling self-delusion is not a quality where I come from.
Mortgage interest deductions for tax are different. They are not from an individual but from the taxpayer in general, and have been voted for by the entire nation.
Moreover, by definition, tax breaks can only be given to those who, er, earn enough to pay taxes.
Posted by Anonymous on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 3:02 pm
We should be encouraging people to buy property - property owners are more responsible and have a long-term investment in their communities. Rent control encourages the opposite - a class of moochers who feel entitled to live in one of the most desirable places in the world at the expense of the person who had the misfortune to rent to them in the first place. Either way both are subsidies, rent control just happens to be the least justifiable of either.
Posted by Lucretia Snapples on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 3:11 pm
Proposition 13, which keeps property taxes artificially low, and the low rate (15%) at which capital gains are taxed vs. the tax rate on wages, are both huge subsidies to property owners.
Everyone who works or spends money pays taxes, either payroll (FICA, Medicare) taxes or sales taxes (very regressive). The reasons that allegedly 47% of US residents don't pay federal income tax reflect the absurdly low wages most workers earn, and high unemployment caused by the banker-induced housing bubble depression.
Who's a bigger "moocher"? A San Francisco renter who paid market rent when she moved into her apartment and can stay because of rent control enacted by the elected Board of Supervisors, or the almost totally wasteful defense industry that reallocates over 50% of federal taxes upwards from the middle class to the richest Americans.
Once, San Francisco was a city inhabited with people less concerned with judging people by how much money they earn but by the quality of their character. Sadly, those days have passed, and the city is worse for it.
Posted by Eddie on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 3:55 pm
else of course nobody would ever do that. It's true in every country on the planet.
Posted by Anonymous on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 5:51 pm
Most of you arguing with Eddie are missing a key point that'd help you to understand why he's right and you're wrong -
- Tenants gaining a free estate for life, with no burden of upkeep or property taxes and a fixed rent that can never be raised (except by a truly minuscule amount once a year), is beneficial to Eddie.
- Allowing people that own property to have a reasonable say in determining the use of that property is NOT beneficial to Eddie.
- Eddie has less money than you. Therefore, he is a better person and his motive's are noble.
- You have more money than Eddie. Therefore, you're a pig and you deserve to have your property seized and redistributed to "the good guys".
Hope that clears things up :) By the way, have any of you ever known a militant tenant/activist that eventually ended up owning his own building? I have. I've known several of them in fact. They tend to end up being the biggest bastards out of any landlord you've ever seen, lol. All that solidarity and brotherhood shit goes right out the window.
Posted by Guest on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 9:34 pm
Housing makes up roughly 30% of the CPI. Thus, an annual rent increase equaling no more than 30% of the prior year's CPI sounds much more accurate than the current 60% used by the SF government. Just as SF allows landlords to increase rents for substantial improvements to their properties, SF is even more generous to landlords by using 60% of annual CPI instead of a more realistic 30% to increase annual rents.
Your proposal to use 100% of the CPI takes the inflation factor from ALL sectors of the economy and applies it to the much narrower rental market. How greedy of you!
Isn't it funny how landlords always want to cheat in their favor? For example, when a landlord's mortgage costs go down after a property is refinanced or when the loan is paid off, the rent never goes down even though the landlord's costs have decreased significantly.
Landlording is the new slavery. When economic output increases, the working groups just end up paying more in rent or pay a higher mortgage amount to the bank. The government loves higher housing prices since they get higher property taxes. And the real estate agents, speculators, banks, mortgage brokers, and others playing in and around the real estate industry all love the higher real estate prices since they get higher fees as a percent of the total transaction.
The federal and state governments subsidize the whole game by giving away multi-billion dollar tax write-offs to landlords and property speculators, while the government relies heavily on regressive payroll and sales tax to finance ever larger government budgets. After many families pay 40% of their income for housing and another 30-40% for combined federal, state and local taxes, there's not a lot of disposible income left to spend in the part of the economy that actually produces goods and services.
Best of all, when real estate values collapse - which they always do - it's always the speculators who dump their property first, leaving the govenrment to bail out the banks, financial companies, and bondholders who own the underlying property loans. Taxpayers were fleeced for $1-2 Trilllion from the late 1980's S&L collapse and it looks like they'll be fleeced for another $6-10 Trillion by the time the 2006-2008 collapse plays out over the next few years.
Posted by Guest on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 4:15 pm
logically be up by the same amount. There is no logic to increase rents by just 60% of that amount.
All that results from artifically low rents is TIC's, condo's, ellis act evictions and a dearth of new build for non-codo rentals.
IOW, RC leads to less supply, which leads to higher rents.
Posted by Anonymous on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 5:54 pm
There are 99 separate towns and cities in the Bay Area, some with higher populations and and some with lower populations; some have more land, some less land. Regardless the differences among the 99 separate towns:
Rent control has no effect on NEW housing supply since rent control doesn't apply to it. Moreover, San Francisco land is super-valuable for a dozen different investment reasons, with the issue of rent control a tiny pimple of concern.
The ONLY people who care about rent control are large, wealthy landlords (often absentee owners) who could extract a few more millions in rent from the local economy each month if there wasn't rent control, and a small group of small landlords who are jealous of their tenants who don't pay as much rent to them as they want. Some of them whine a lot. A few of these landlords are very self-absorbed and might be worth a million or five depending on how many units they have, but they are often idle with nothing to do other than collect rent checks and harrass tenants. Some even spend their idle hours on chat boards like this stirring up the pot. Unfortunately there are always a few not-so-brights who engage them.
Since you seem like a fairly bright soul, Anonymous, I'm sure you can easily grasp the fantastic benefits of rent control when 75,000 San Francisco households save about 150 million in rent each month that they can spend in the local economy for medical needs or educating their children, or a dozen other worthwhile causes, instead of sending even more money to the already very wealthy landlord class.
Now you're up to speed about rent control, greedy landlords, and SF new housing construction.
Posted by Guest on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 7:26 pm
Perhaps I'll take your advice and not engage the idle landlord class. Most people I know don't consider me a "not-so-bright."
Posted by Eddie on Nov. 28, 2012 @ 10:33 pm
even though technically it is exempt? Why? Because no developer can be certain the law wont be changed next year, just like it was for 2-4 unit owner-occupied buildings in 1994, or like the OMI rules in 1998 and so on..
That's why the ONLY new build is condo's and single-family homes, both exempt from rent control by State law, so the city is powerless to control them.
Posted by Anonymous on Nov. 29, 2012 @ 8:04 am
1844 Market Street--113 rental units
1401 Market Street--719 rental units
These are just examples. There are probably more new high-rise rentals under construction.
Recently completed:
The Paramount, 680 Mission--486 rental units (2002)
Argenta, 1 Polk Street--179 rental units (2009)
Again, these are just some of the biggest examples.
An exhaustive survey would find loads more new or recently constructed rental housing in San Francisco
Just the facts, man!!
Posted by Eddie on Nov. 29, 2012 @ 8:54 am
furhished lets, short-term lets, academic lets, vacation lets ot B&B's. and of course they are very expensive rentals which aren't in any way "affordable".
Nobody in their right mind will rent to the kind of "lifer" that you are talking about i.e. people who move to SF because they think it's "cool" but lack the fiscal power to sustain a life here.
And how many of those buildings are for-rent condo's? They are exempt from most of rent control.
Posted by Anonymous on Nov. 29, 2012 @ 9:20 am
are rentals. None are for-rent condos.
Regardless of who rents these units, the fact that they have been recently built or are currently under construction proves false your statement that "the ONLY new build is condo's and single-family homes."
Posted by Eddie on Nov. 29, 2012 @ 9:44 am
that the fact that post-79 construction is theoretically exempt from RC does not entirely satsify those who might otherwise build new rentals.
The possibility of retrospective changes to that exemption is a deterrance and, where new build rentals do occur then, as I said, they are designed to have a short payback period and target those who are only likely to stay temporarily, e.g. corporate, academic and vacation lets. As such they don't help the low-rent segment at all.
It is estimated that SF loses about 3,000 RC units per year due to all causes, and of course none are being added. The trend is not your friend here.
Posted by Anonymous on Nov. 29, 2012 @ 10:04 am
"the ONLY new build is condo's and single-family homes."
Or maybe you didn't mean what you wrote.
Posted by Eddie on Nov. 29, 2012 @ 10:13 am
In the time that that handful of new rentals were built, probably 100 times that number of market-rent owner-occupier condo's were built. That's not a coincidence, nor do you see that level of disparity anywhere outside of SF and the dozen or so cities in the US that still have rent control.
So if you want to maintain your orginal point that new build rentals are not discouraged by our RC laws then I would respectfully suggest that you are talking out your ass.
If you really want to know how developers and landlords feel about RC, why don't you ask them? I can assure you they won't be shy, and they'll be happy to explain why they do not replace tenants that move out.
Rents are probably ten times what they were in 1979. If that's a success, many would prefer failure.
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About Jeannette Rankin
Known for: first American woman elected to Congress (November 7, 1916)
Occupation: suffragist, peace activist, reformer
Dates: June 11, 1880 - May 18, 1973
Also known as: Jeanette Rankin, Jeannette Pickering Rankin
Jeannette Rankin Biography
Jeannette Pickering Rankin was born on June 11, 1880. Her father, John Rankin, was a rancher, developer and lumber merchant in Montana. Her mother, Olive Pickering, a former schoolteacher. She spent her first years on the ranch, then moved with the family to Missoula where she attended public school. She was the oldest of eleven children, seven of whom survived childhood.
Education and Social Work:
Rankin attended Montana State University at Missoula and graduated in 1902 with a bachelor of science degree in biology. She worked as a schoolteacher, and seamstress and studied furniture design, looking for some work to which she could commit herself. When her father died in 1902, he left money to Rankin, paid out over her lifetime.
On a long trip to Boston in 1904 to visit with her brother at Harvard and with other relatives, she was inspired by slum conditions to take up the new field of social work. She became a resident in a San Francisco Settlement House for four months, then entered the New York School of Philanthropy (later, to become the Columbia School of Social Work). She returned to the west to become a social worker in Spokane, Washington, in a children's home. Social work did not, however, hold her interest long -- she only lasted a few weeks at the children's home.
Jeannette Rankin and Women's Rights:
Next, Rankin studied at the University of Washington in Seattle and became involved in the woman suffrage movement in 1910. Visiting Montana, Rankin became the first woman to speak before the Montana legislature, where she surprised the spectators and legislators alike with her speaking ability. She organized and spoke for the Equal Franchise Society.
Rankin then moved to New York, and continued her work on behalf of women's rights. During these years, she began her lifelong relationship with Katherine Anthony. Rankin went to work for the New York Woman Suffrage Party and in 1912 she became the field secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
Rankin and Anthony were among the thousands of suffragists at the 1913 suffrage march in Washington, D.C., before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson.
Rankin returned to Montana to help organize the successful Montana suffrage campaign in 1914. To do so, she gave up her position with the NAWSA.
Working for Peace and Election to Congress:
As war in Europe loomed, Rankin turned her attention to work for peace, and in 1916, ran for one of the two seats in Congress from Montana as a Republican. Her brother served as campaign manager and helped finance the campaign. Jeannette Rankin won, though the papers first reported that she lost the election -- and Jeannette Rankin thus became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress, and the first woman elected to a national legislature in any western democracy.
Rankin used her fame and notoriety in this "famous first" position to work for peace and women's rights and against child labor, and to write a weekly newspaper column.
Only four days after taking office, Jeannette Rankin made history in yet another way: she voted against U.S. entry into World War I. She violated protocol by speaking during the roll call before casting her vote, announcing "I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war." Some of her colleagues in NAWSA -- notably Carrie Chapman Catt -- criticized her vote as opening the suffrage cause to criticism as impractical and sentimental.
Rankin did vote, later in her term, for several pro-war measures, as well as working for the political reforms including civil liberties, suffrage, birth control, equal pay and child welfare. In 1917, she opened the congressional debate on the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, which passed the House in 1917 and the Senate in 1918, to become the 19th Amendment after it was ratified by the states.
But Rankin's first anti-war vote sealed her political fate. When she was gerrymandered out of her district, she ran for the Senate, lost the primary, launched a third party race, and lost overwhelmingly.
After World War I:
After the war ended, Rankin continued to work for peace through the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and also began work for the National Consumers' League. She worked, at the same time, on the staff of the American Civil Liberties Union.
After a brief return to Montana to help her brother run -- unsuccessfully -- for the Senate, she moved to a farm in Georgia. She returned to Montana every summer, her legal residence.
From her base in Georgia, Jeannette Rankin became Field Secretary of the WILPF and lobbied for peace. When she left the WILPF she formed the Georgia Peace Society. She lobbied for the Women's Peace Union, working for an antiwar constitutional amendment. She left the Peace Union, and began working with the National Council for the Prevention of War. She also lobbied for American cooperation with the World Court and for labor reforms and an end to child labor, including working for passage of the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921, a bill she had originally introduced into Congress. Her work for a constitutional amendment to end child labor was less successful.
In 1935, when a college in Georgia offered her the position of Peace Chair, she was accused of being a Communist, and ended up filing a libel suit against the Macon newspaper that had spread the accusation. The court eventually declared her, as she said, "a nice lady."
In the first half of 1937, she spoke in 10 states, giving 93 speeches for peace. She supported the America First Committee, but decided that lobbying was not the most effective way to work for peace. By 1939, she had returned to Montana and was running for Congress again, supporting a strong but neutral America in yet another time of impending war. Her brother once again contributed financial support for her candidacy.
Elected to Congress, Again:
Elected with a small plurality, Jeannette Rankin arrived in Washington in January as one of six women in the House, two in the Senate. When, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Congress voted to declare war against Japan, Jeannette Rankin once again voted "no" to war. She also, once again, violated long tradition and spoke before her roll call vote, this time saying "As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else" as she voted alone against the war resolution. She was denounced by the press and her colleagues, and barely escaped an angry mob. She believed that Roosevelt had deliberately provoked the attack on Pearl Harbor.
After Second Term in Congress:
In 1943, Rankin went back to Montana rather than run for Congress again (and surely be defeated). She took care of her ailing mother and traveled worldwide, including to India and Turkey, promoting peace, and tried to found a woman's commune on her Georgia farm. In 1968, she led more than five thousand women in a protest in Washington, DC, demanding the U.S. withdraw from Vietnam, heading up the group calling itself the Jeannette Rankin Brigade. She was active in the antiwar movement, often invited to speak or honored by the young antiwar activists and feminists.
Jeannette Rankin died in 1973 in California.
About Jeannette Rankin
- Categories: suffragist, congresswoman, pacifist, peace activist, reformer
- Organizational Affiliations: NAWSA, WILPF, National Consumers League, Georgia Peace Society, Jeanette Rankin Brigade
- Places: Montana, Georgia, United States
- Period: 20th century
Jeannette Rankin
Suggested Reading
- Peace and Anti-Militarism
- Women Marchers Attacked at Inauguration
- March 3, 1913 Suffrage Parade - photo gallery
- Woman Suffrage
- Voices of 1920 Heard Today
- The Long Road to Suffrage
Print Bibliography
- Davidson, Sue. A Heart in Politics: Jeannette Rankin and Patsy T. Mink. 1994.
- Giles, Kevin. Flight of the Dove: The Story of Jeannette Rankin. 1980.
- Josephson, Hannah Geffen. Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress. 1974.
- Smith, Norma. Jeannette Rankin, America's Conscience. 2002.
- O'Brien, Mary Barmeyer. Jeannette Rankin: 1880-1973: Bright Star in the Big Sky. 1995. Young Adult.
Jeannette Rankin on the Web
Ex-Rep. Jeanette Rankin Dies; First Woman in Congress, 92
From the New York Times, May 20, 1973, the obituary of "the first woman to serve in teh United States Congress and the only Representative who voted against the nation's entry into World Wars I and II" - "a lifelong pacifist and one of the country's earliest women suffragists."
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Jeannette Rankin is interviewed for an oral history project in 1972, talking about her political career and ideas about democracy, women's rights and peace.
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Artistry in genes can be an important ingredient for a pastry chef, as Mangesh Sangpal of Courtyard by Marriot, Chennai, finds. Inspired at a young age by master chef Sanjeev Kapoor's TV shows, Sangpal decided his career lay in the kitchen. He undertook a diploma in Hotel Management, then followed it up with a one-year specialisation in pastry. With a father and uncles who are sculptors, Sangpal's flair for intricate design is obvious, especially when you see him bent over a delicate decoration for a yummy pastry.
Ask Sangpal why pastry chef, and he says it is a challenge to delight diverse people with an offering that is attractive, delicious and appealing. Here is where creativity kicks in, and he says that too is a challenge. Sangpal is in charge of the deli Muffin Tree, but also plans the offering for the buffet. His brief includes costing, people planning, and training. Even as he speaks, Sangpal is consulted by colleagues, and they seem to get quick, concise instructions. His creations for the buffet filled much of the small bakery shop in the hotel's kitchen area — and if taste matches looks, a big treat awaited the diners. Sangpal spends much of his free time sculpting, as he feels this shapes his creativity when baking speciality decorative cakes.
Having spent time in the pâtisserie departments of top hotels such as Le Royal Meridian, The Orchid, and The Grand, as also on a cruise liner, Sangpal brings taste and speed to the muffins, cakes, and other delicacies. He says he mastered the art of chocolate and margarine carving on the cruise liner, where he also learnt to deliver volumes. He mentions with pride a voyage where he was asked to do a live dessert workshop for 3,000 passengers.
Sangpal keeps experimenting, and his offerings include innovative blends of Indian sweets and Western pastries that sound and appear delightful. He is all for fusion desserts as he can try out new combinations to get around the problem of repetition. He calls his favourite fusion pastry Desire — a chocolate creation with rich vanilla creme roulle filling.
In the mango season just past, he created a variety of cakes, pastries, salads, drinks and Indian desserts that caught the eye and imagination of the Chennaite, a willing slave to the king of fruits.
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Just desserts!
Most cultures include a sweet dish in every meal. The gastronomically inclined French thought of serving the sweet dish at the end of the meal, and aptly called it desservir - which means "to clear the table", and "to serve".
The first desserts, according to Wikipedia, were candies made from raw honeycomb and dried dates. It was not until the Middle Ages, when sugar was manufactured, that real sweet desserts were thought up. But even then, sugar was so expensive that it was only for the wealthy and for special occasions. Popular frozen desserts such as ice-cream can also be traced back to the Middle Ages, when royalty would indulge in fresh ice, flavoured with honey or fruit syrup. There are accounts of Mughal kings bringing ice from central Asia to Delhi and Agra.
Today, at most restaurants, a wide range of sweet dishes borrowed from various cuisines make up the dessert menu. Indian sweets like Kubani-ka-meeta jostle for the taste buds alongside Turkish Baklava or Western desserts such as puddings, pies and cakes. But, easily, the most popular are the rich pastries. Traced to the Mediterranean, they were brought to the West by the Crusaders and perfected by French chefs. More than just a baked mix of flour, sugar, milk, butter, baking powder and eggs, pastries are works of art - delicate and delectable.


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- 30 December 1959
- Chamonix (France)
- State degree in special education, Mountain guide
- Mountain guide, writer, filmmaker
- 1985
Desire and ambition: a long-term relationship
«I had the chance to experience the golden age of ice climbing and I still love to climb at the end of a valley in full winter. My life as an alpinist has been marked with an indelible seal by the world of ice climbing. In the early eighties, I found a synthesis between sport climbing and alpinism, two practices that tended to be differentiated by separate worlds. In ice climbing, I found the movement and the pleasure of rock climbing combined with the mastery of risky terrain that is important to an alpinist. In ice climbing, I have also made some great friendships with those tied into the other end of a rope.
The image had a strong influence on me and I love to try to carry the aesthetic of a mountain that has beaten me, or escape from a line that has made an impact on me. After that it's the stories of companionship. Those with photographers and filmmakers. Their skills have taught me to look for the best light, select the material, transcend the impatience of a climber. It's a way to not get locked inside the intemperance of the performance. In a photograph or film, this manifests itself as the choice of the best framing to elicit an emotion, of an angle used to tell a story, for many people to see, or simply as a way to keep a memory for a few moments of our lives as climbers. Finally, later, now, to dare to make my films from behind the camera and show things differently. Perfect my view, refine the dialogue, try to let others tell their stories by combining my mountaineering experience with my passion for the image. More than stories of climbing, I love the stories of climbers.»
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«I have climbed for quite awhile now… and, as in climbing, my journey is marked by a few key passages. Feelings of discovery emerge, the satisfactions of performance, the complicities of friendship, tears from dramas and the joy of motivation. Years forced to take a turn: the loss of recklessness. It's perhaps because of this that today I am trying to keep from locking myself in my own caricature. Certainly, the practice of ice climbing is a 'big part' of my life as an alpinist, but it has also allowed me to go beyond that, to see differently and to learn from practices other than my own. Without being a writer nor a filmmaker… I have actually spent a lot of time making books and films. Today, I focus my guiding practice on the people I am with, at very high altitude, which forces me to explore other ideas and take a necessary step back from the practice of the sport, in my practice of the sport. Today, breathing life into a publishing house (JMéditions) is a way to use my pen to hatch the writing projects of others. The author publisher relationship is also like a climbing partnership. Today, to swap my ice tools for a camera is to walk away from the role of a climber 'who takes the stage' to talk about something new and give birth to the narrative. To find the angle of a story is to sharpen the critical analysis and not be soothed by convention.
Today, I continue to live my childhood dreams fuelled by the stories of Rebuffat, Terray and Desmaison. Their books and films inspire me to leave my comfort zone. I have always been sensitive to those who find the ability to juggle their passion (climber), their work (mountain guide) and the taste for publishing.»
Major ascents
Solo climbs:
- Mont-Blanc du Tacul (Chamonix) 'Supercouloir' 1986
- Ben Nevis (Scotland) route linkups, 1987
- La Grande Traversée des Cimes (Mont Blanc range) 1992, solo traverse of the entire Mont Blanc range summit ridge in total autonomy
- Ama Dablam (Nepal) Southwest Face in one day, 1993
- Canada Trophy Wall and Norway, ice route linkup, 2003
Exploratory first ascents:
- Urgyenmang (Nepal) North Face (6001 m) 1999
- Shishuan (China) Abi Mountain (5900 m) 2004
- Sano Chekigo (Nepal) (6000 m) 2006
- Hawley Peak (Nepal) (6182 m) 2008
First ascents in the Mont Blanc range:
- Aiguille du Midi, Mont Blanc du Tacul, Mont Blanc (seracs) 1987 – 1991
- Aiguille Sans Nom 'Naïa' (gully) 1996
- Mont Blanc du Tacul 'Pilier des Séracs' (rock route)
Ice climbing first ascents:
- Bourg d'Oisans (France) 'Visa pour l'Amérique' 1987
- La Grave (France) 'L'étoffe' 1987
- Val Nontey (Italy) 'Repentance' 1989
- La Grave (France) 'Les Galands', 'Grands Clôt' 1990
- Le Fournel (France) 'Gramuzat Directe', 'Juste une Illusion', 'Blowjob', 'Les Racines du Ciel' 1991
- Sixt Fer à Cheval (France) 'La Folly', 'La Massue', 'Trélachaume' 1991
- Canada 'Le lézard d'Or', 'French Reality' 1992
- Canada 'The Day After les Vacances de Mr Hulot' 1993
- Ben Nevis (Scotland) 'French Connection' ('The most difficult route added by an overseas team' S.Richardson) 1995
- Valdigne (France) 'Liaisons Dangereuses' 1996
- Vallée de l'Arve (France) 'L'Arpenaz' 2001
- Sixt Fer à Cheval (France) 'La Sorcière Blanche' 2006
The great classics with clients:
North Faces: Grandes Jorasses, Matterhorn, Eiger, Pilier d'Angle…
Other informations
Books :
- ICE 89: Illustrations, Proactis 1988
- CHEMINS DE GEL: Text and photos with Bernard Amy and Gérard Kosicki. Glénat 1989. French and German versions. Awarded in Germany
- HAUTE MONTAGNE ET ALPINISME: How-to book with Dominique Lebrun. Solar 1989
- L'ESCALADE: How-to book. Solar 1990
- CASCADES DE GLACE: Guidebooks for l'Oisans with Godefroy Perroux, 1992
- GLACE NEIGE ET MIXTE: 500 Itinéraires dans le Massif du Mont-Blanc. With Godefroy Perroux, 1996
- MONTAGNE PASSION: With Claude Gardien. Hachette 1997. French, English, Spanish, German versions. Awarded in Italy
- CASCADES AUTOUR DU MONT-BLANC: Two volumes with Godefroy Perroux, 1998
- CASCADES DE GLACE, l'Oisans aux six vallées: Two volumes with Godefroy Perroux, 2000
- MONT BLANC 4808 m, 5 Routes to the Summit: JM Éditions 2004. French, English, Spanish versions
- SNOW, ICE AND MIXED, guide to the Mont-Blanc Range: two volumes. JM Éditions 2005. French, English, Spanish versions
- ICE CLIMBING AND DRY TOOLING, Haute-Savoie: Two volumes with Philippe Batoux et Ludovic Seifert. JM Éditions 2007. French, English bilingual version, Italian, Spanish, English editions
- LA VALLÉE BLANCHE, the most beautiful off-piste in the world: JM Éditions 2009. French, English versions
Chronicler: MONTAGNES MAGAZINE (1987 - 1989),
Editor: VERTICAL (1990 - 2000).
Films :
- SAFARI ROC: Bourse de l'Aventure Antenne 2. 1984. Climbing Mont Kenya (5200 m)
- VISA POUR L'AMÉRIQUE: FR3 Montagne, 1988. Ice climbs
- LA DAME BLANCHE: Ushuaia/TF1, 1989. Solo ice climb in Québec
- L'ÉLÉPHANT BLANC: Ushuaia/TF1 - Chromatique, 1989. Seracs of Mont Blanc
- À BOUT DE GLACE : MC4/Antenne 2, 1990. Ice climbs of Canada. Awarded at the Autrans Festival.
- USHUAIA. TF: Trois plateaux en situation avec Nicolas Hulot: Alpe d'Huez, Aiguille du Midi, Canadian rock
- ICE UP: 2003. Ice climbing and dry tooling with seven famous climbers. 30'. DVD, French, English versions
- SKIPPERS D'ALTITUDE: 2005. Gear guide - clients on a 7000m peak. 38'. DVD, French, English, Spanish versions
- LA SORCIÈRE BLANCHE: 2006. Ice climbing and dry tooling in the Cirque du fer à Cheval. 40'. DVD, French, English, Spanish and Italian versions
- LA STRATÉGIE DE L'ESCARGOT: 2008. 'Moving slowly' at very high altitude. 10'. French, English versions
- PARENTHÈSE À 8000: 2009. Stories from eight amateur alpinists at very high altitude. 30'. French, English versions
François and the Petzl team
«I started my collaboration with Petzl in 1985… I like long-term relationships! Petzl is one of my best climbing partners. I represent desire and ambition. I am both ambassador and counsellor.»


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The Pause that Refreshes
I'm a super passionate person about my work. I love to be 100% engaged in everything I do. But to be honest, I get bored easily. Sometimes it'll be some small thing that I get bored with during the day. Sometimes, I'll get bored with something more significant in my life. Either way, my boredom with whatever it is that's boring me acts as a wake up call. It let's me know I'm moving or thinking in the wrong direction. It makes me pause to consider how I can reframe something to be more exciting, more interesting, more innovative. In fact, when I'm really attuned to my boredom, I use it as a pause to refresh my viewpoints. So, in a strange way, getting bored can be kind of a good thing for me.


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An Interdisciplinary Major
The Biological Basis of Behavior Program (BBB) is an interdisciplinary major in which students explore biological, psychological, computational and clinical approaches to understand the nervous system as the biological basis of behavior, as well as perception, memory, motivation, and emotion. The BBB program, created in 1978 as one of the first neuroscience undergraduate programs in the country, allows students to explore a broad range of topics in the neural sciences through courses taught by faculty and staff in several departments in the School of Arts and Sciences and the Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
Cutting Edge Neuroscience Research
A distinguishing feature of the major is the emphasis placed on encouraging students to become actively involved in research. Each year more than eighty BBB majors are engaged in cutting edge research throughout campus seeking to push forward our knowledge of how neural circuits give rise to complex behaviors and how these circuits go awry in psychiatric and neurological disorders. Many students in the BBB Program are actively involved in community outreach, participating in the annual Kids Judge Neuroscience Fair for elementary school students from West Philadelphia.
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- Encoding and decoding in parietal cortex during sensorimotor decision-making
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What part of the day is truly appropriate to have a snack? Are there official snack times? We all know the usual ones: morning snack, afternoon snack and midnight snack. But are those really the only ones? We believe if you want to have a snack, have a snack. At anytime, like these:
I-just-finished-school snack.
A day filled with lectures, quizzes and tests can be grueling. Take your own recess and kick back with a snack after your long day of getting your learn on.
I've-already-been-at-work-for-four-minutes snack.
Starting your day at the office can be rough. The first four minutes of your day can feel like an hour some mornings. Reward yourself for making it through the first "hour" of your day.
I-just-woke-up-from-a-nap snack.
A nap is one of the most glorious activities you can do. Eating a snack afterwards just makes it glorious-er.
I-had-a-snack-and-I-want-another-one snack.
It's okay to snack back-to-back. No really, it is. On second thought, maybe we just keep this "little known fact" between us.
I-want-a-snack-right-now snack.
Why are you reading this? You should go to Arby's and get whatever snack you want. Like now.
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Running errands are the worst. Unless you're running errands to go get snacks, then running errands are the best.