Can you believe it’s April 1 already? Happy April, everyone, and I hope your day is filled with April Fools’ jokes and less rain than yesterday. It’s 7:30 a.m. and 46°. Highs are expected to get up to 58°. Details here.
Iso Rabins, the man behind ForageSF who was on our on front page on Friday because of permit issues for a group dinner scheduled that day, is back in the spotlight on Bay Area Bites, talking about how he started his forage business:
Born in Santa Cruz and raised on the East Coast, Iso Rabins always knew he wanted to return to California after college. What he didn’t know was that he’d be making a living out of what he found in the woods. Staying with his father in the woods east of Eureka, CA, Rabins learned to forage mushrooms and began to drive them down to San Francisco to sell at the back doors of restaurants.
“Black trumpets, hedgehogs, chanterelles,” Rabins recalls. “Chris Cosentino was one of the first guys to buy from me. He seemed pretty into it.”
And in transportation news, Bay Citizen’s Zusha Elison writes that Muni is slower now than when it started, 100 years ago:
In 1920, the F-Stockton streetcar carried passengers from the Financial District at Market and Stockton Streets all the way to the Marina at Chestnut and Scott Streets in a zippy 17 minutes. Today a very similar trip on the 30-Stockton, the successor to the F-Stockton, takes a half-hour if the stars are properly aligned.
