Wondering where to watch the World Cup Finals on Sunday? Sam at Becks and Posh has the answer for you, along with an update about Cafe Bastille's plans for Sunday.

Bastille was packed with an audience passionate and excited enough to give the game a thrilling atmosphere.

Tea at Tea and Cookies has a great post called The Control
Freak and the CSA which talks about how she tackled her inner control freak and joined a CSA where (gasp!) you receive produce that has been chosen for you.

The truth is that I am a wee bit of a control freak, and not just about which tomatoes I take home. I was the child who didn't like other kids to play with my toys, they just messed them up.

Madame Cupcake from Delicious One was curious about visiting Ranch 99 after reading Meghan's Bay Area Bites post about scary food. In "Live Fish No More", Madame Cupcake talks about her adventures at the Ranch 99 fish counter and other first impressions

The bag continued to wiggle in our cart and we paid, and left. We were a bit freaked out, but there wasn't much we could do at this point except hope that it'd stop. And eventually it did. It wasn't moving by the time it made it onto the serving platter.

A few Bay Area-centric cookbooks have made their way on to the bookshelves of our local independent bookstores lately. Heidi talks about the new Dona Toma's cookbook and Cedric posted a review of Savor: San Francisco over at sfist.