STEPH DEROSA: DINNER WITH DEROSA >>>
There’s a new cupcake in town, folks. Original, unique, and creative ingredients help make this flour induced newbie a real contender.
I noticed The Spotted Dog Cake Company’s tent last week at the downtown Tacoma Farmers Market, and was drawn in by the simple display of tiny little cupcakes. For 75 cents I was able to pick from four different creations, ultimately choosing a lavender vanilla flavored piece of mini-cupcake bliss. This week, The Spotted Dog Cake Company will be providing homemade sugary snacks for our theoretical, imaginary, online weekly dinner known as Dinner with DeRosa.
Aside from the Tacoma Farmers Market, I was also able to attend the opening day of this year’s Taste of Tacoma. Fortunately I have this kick-ass job and a kick-ass boss to work for — giving me endless opportunities to get out and be a part of this town. I get paid the big bucks to hang out in the sun with Matt Driscoll, blog live from events, eat a bunch of greasy alligator (on a stick!), and even drink beer if I feel so inclined. This week’s Dinner with DeRosa guests are some of the people I had the incredible luck of meeting at the 2008 Taste of Tacoma.
Andrew Wyman, my first guest, is part of the B97.3 street team. I was
immediately charmed by him and wooed toward his tent last Friday as
Matt Driscoll and his family waited in line for free S&W rice. The
dude gets paid for just standing there and being the charming,
enthusiastic fella that he is. (I’m talking about Andrew, not Matt.)
How can you beat that? It was his first day on the job, and he was
taking it by the horns. Excellent job — and rock on, Andrew!
Dolling out energy drinks only a sugar-bred college student would
drink, were the gorgeous members of Everett Community College’s
softball team. I made fun of them for being from the 425, until Kally
Behen quickly chimed in to let me know that she was in fact from the
360. I said that was close enough to my 253 and then gave them all the
stamp of coolness. Joleen Monfiletto and Stacey Todd were the other
two beauties that rallied and tolerated my area code abrasiveness.
Remember back in the day, way before cable television and back when the hardest-hitting drug in the schools was pot? Yeah, that was also back when it was mandatory to drink eight glasses of milk a day. Then eventually bottled water came to town and poked its head into the markets. Now, all of the sudden, those eight mandatory glasses of milk becomes eight mandatory glasses of WATER. I agree that water is vital to your body’s well being, but I also believe that the bottled water companies have had a strong pull in how America now obsesses over this dietary aqua regimen. Plain and simple, they want your money. I claim my conspiracy theory right here and now.
Look, I even have proof with this picture I took of a Crystal Waters guy. He’s saying it right there: STOP Free water!
There’s no need to go into detail about my next dinner guest. All we
need to know is he is sporting a rat tail/mullet combo. Check the
badassedness out.
My last guest is the main man with the plan, the gentleman who led the
troops of summer-smitten camp-going youngsters at Annie Wright School,
Tal. Being a graduate of Annie Wright School, Tal is now in college,
but has made his way home to lead a summer camp, which housed my
daughter for the last two weeks while I did my Weekly Volcano thing
sans 5-year-old. I know my daughter appreciated you and your staff as
much as I did, Tal.
Mangiamo!
