On Mon 22 Aug 2005 12:56:15a, sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On 22 Aug 2005 07:52:12 +0200, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
>> In case you don't remember, I'm in AZ, not NYC or Europe. :-)
>
> GAK, sorry. I keep placing you where Michael is and I put him
> slightly North. LOL I need to get myself a map and put pins with
> names on them in it. Nah, I'll let someone who is computer literate
> do an online map where we can enter our names in the appropriate
> location.
>
>)

Michael lives in St. Louis, MO.

>> I can hardly imagine Phoenix being more cosmopolitan than San
>> Francisco.
>
> I don't know how you rate on the Cosmopolitan scale, but you guys
> eclipsed us on the population index years ago.
>
> 2000 - Phoenix is the sixth-largest city in the U.S., with a
> population of 1,321,045.

Greater Phoenix is projected to reach 3.4 million people sometime in 2005.

> The City and County of San Francisco (2004 estimated population
> 744,230) is the fourth-largest city in the state of California.... NOT
> in the US.
>
> Taking into consideration that a large part of your population is
> transplanted retirees, you probably have more people in your area who
> know about that cheese than we do here.

That's true. I'm always surprised that we don't have a wider range of
ethnic restaurants and food shops.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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