San Francisco appetites and afterthoughts

"San Francisco Appetites and Afterthoughts is Ernie Beyl's second book published by Grizzly Peak Press. His first, Sketches from a North Beach Journal, traced the city's history with profiles of larger-than-life characters who have added so much panache and excitement to the old neighborhood. San Francisco Appetites and Afterthoughts is an opinionated book by an opinionated guy. It hits the reader right between the ears. Open this book to any page and it hooks you: Levi Strauss and the copper rivets on his jeans and why they were removed from the crotch, Agnes von Kurowsky's Dear John letter to Ernest Hemingway relates to Ernie's Dear John letter after taking his girlfriend to the top of the Mark before he shipped out with the Marine Corps, the Haphazard Gourmet who gives Ernie his recipe for cassoulet because he knows a seduction depends on it. The book features Ernie's passions - his appetites for fascinating characters he's known over the years in San Francisco - from poets to bartenders, from saloons to jazz. It's the author's life in the provocative city by the Golden Gate."--Dust jacket of work.