You may recognize me from somewhere, somewhere like YOUR TIVO.
Pretty much the only thing the director told me: “Don’t look at the camera.” Dang.
More on my explosion onto the local public television restaurant-reviewing stage sometime soon; until then you can check out my episode of the Check Please Bay Area here.
Tags: bay area, check please, cooking, el tonayense, food, high tech product designer, leslie sbrocco, san francisco, taco truck
Hi. I’m Doug LeMoine, and this is le blog. I write about design, art, books, and basketball, approximately in that order. I work at Cooper, an interaction design firm in San Francisco, and I write for and edit the Cooper Journal.
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