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| Street Art
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| Excellent: lively and delightful.
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| A dragon that eats bars of chocolate. (Chocolate dragon <=>
cookie monster.)
| This is a big work; please view the full-sized image.
It says "In
Memory of Dr. Seuss," then has a drawing of "The Lorax," and is followed
by "We Miss You!"
I hope this guy won the competition.
| A high-quality drawing of a primitive figure offering a cocoa bean.
It wasn't yet finished when I took this picture.
| Various images of cocoa beans and chocolate products.
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| "Life is like a Box of Chocolates."
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| Street Art for Businesses
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| Many businesses decorated the sidewalk outside their buildings.
| Virginia Bakery.
| Elephant Pharmacy.
| Starbucks (the green logo at right).
Because of all the extra
pictures here, I was tempted to put this in the general sidewalk art
category.
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| ACCI Gallery.
| Juice Bar Collective.
Because this piece doesn't have the name
of the business, I was tempted to put it in the general sidewalk art
section. However, it's obviously connected with the shop.
| Perhaps the best use of sidewalk art.
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| Chocolate and Other Food
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| Chocolate tandoori chicken. The chicken--a boneless breast--was pretty
dry and entirely unspiced! However, the chocolate sauce, a dark
chocolate with a deep roasted flavor, was perhaps the best quality
chocolate I had that day.
| "Chocolate garlic cluster:" a few cloves of garlic embedded in
chocolate. I'm not sure what the fragments outside the chocolate are.
As I walked by the shop selling these, I could really smell the garlic.
The piece, however, didn't smell that much, at least until I bit into
it, allowing the cloves access to the air. Each bite gave an brief but
intense taste of garlic that was quickly covered by chocolate as one
chewed and broke the chocolate up into pieces.
The chocolate wasn't very good quality.
| Chocolate-dipped pineapple.
| I wanted something healthy, tasty, and non-chocolate for a break, so
bought a corn-mango-jicama salad from a deli, Poulet, that sells a lot of
roasted chickens. It was quite good.
The chicken in the
background is not chalk art; rather, each table in Poulet is decorated
with images of chickens. This drawing was on the table I sat at. I sat
for a while in the corner window and read before steeling myself to go
out for more chocolate.
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Chocolate orange sorbet from Ciao Bella Gelato. It was
intensely chocolaty and intensely orangy. I can't believe I finished
it all. Definitely good, I selected it after tasting some other options:
chocolate jalapeno gelato (lacked its promised kick) and white chocolate
raspberry gelato (fairly appealing).
The funny thing about this festival is that I normally don't buy gelato
or dessert in general, especially when alone, yet because I had tickets
to spend I did so. It's not like these flavor options were only offered
on this day.
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Incidentally, I bought a fruit-and-nut bun (a.k.a. wolverine) from the
Cheeseboard
Bakery which I saved for later. (I don't get up to Berkeley much
anymore and didn't want to pass up the chance to grab Berkeley goodies I
don't frequently see.)
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